quarter

quarters (plural)
quartere (alternative)
quartier (alternative)
quartre (alternative)
quater (alternative)
quatere (alternative)
quatter (alternative)
qwarter (alternative)
wharter (alternative)

English: quarter

Scots: quarter, corter

Yola: curthere, cortere

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartārius.

(heraldry) A fourth part of a coat of arms.

A quarter (fourth part of something):
A fourth part of a coat of arms.


red

English: red

Scots: rede, reid

Yola: reed

From Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós.

redde (alternative)
reed (alternative)
read (alternative)
ræd (alternative)


ostrich

ostriches (plural)
ostriche (alternative)
ostrige (alternative)
ostryche (alternative)

English: ostrich

Scots: ostriche (obsolete)

→ Welsh: estrys

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman ostrige and continental Old French ostruce, from Vulgar Latin *austrūthiō.

(rare, heraldry) A heraldic image of an ostrich.


rose

roses (plural)
rosen (plural)
roose (alternative)
rosse (alternative)
roos (alternative)
ros (alternative)

English: rose (see there for further descendants)

Scots: rose

Yola: rowse

From Old English rōse, from Latin rosa. Reinforced and remodelled on Old French rose, from the same Latin source.

(heraldry) The rose as a heraldic emblem.


vert

English: vert

Borrowed from Old French vert, from Late Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis.

verd (alternative)
verte (alternative)
wert (alternative)


vert

English: vert


swan

swannes (plural)
suan (alternative)
swane (alternative)
swanne (alternative)
sqwan (alternative East-Anglia)
swon (alternative West-Midlands)

English: swan

Scots: swan

From Old English swan, from Proto-West Germanic *swan, from Proto-Germanic *swanaz.


difference

enm-noun

difference (plural differences or difference)

differences (plural)
difference (plural)
differens (alternative)
defference (alternative)
defferense (alternative)
dyfferens (alternative)

English: difference

Scots: difference

From Old French difference, from Latin differēntia; equivalent to differren (“to postpone”) + -ence.

(heraldry, rare) A heraldic cadency for a family's junior branch.


metal

metalles (plural)
matall (alternative)
mataylle (alternative)
metail (alternative)
metaille (alternative)
metall (alternative)
metalle (alternative)
metel (alternative)
metell (alternative)
metelle (alternative)
mettall (alternative)
mettel (alternative)

English: metal, mettle

Scots: metal

→ Welsh: metel

Borrowed from Old French metal, from Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).

(heraldry, rare) metal (class of tinctures)


band

bandes (plural)
bande (alternative)
bend (alternative)
bond (alternative)
boond (alternative)
bonde (alternative)
bound (alternative)

English: band, bend, bond

Scots: band, bend

Inherited from Old English bend, from Proto-Germanic *bandiz; vocalism is influenced by Old Norse band and Old French bande.

A strip of a material used to tie or bind; a band:

(heraldry, rare) A diagonal stripe or band.


cross

crosses (plural)
cros (alternative)
croz (alternative)
crosse (alternative)
crosce (alternative)

English: cross
→ Japanese: クロス (kurosu)

Scots: cross, cros

From Old English cros, borrowed from Old Norse kross, borrowed from Old Irish cros, borrowed from Latin crux. Doublet of crouche and croys.

A representation of a cross; the cross as a Christian symbol:


horn

hornes (plural)
horne (alternative)
orn (alternative)

English: horn

Scots: horn

Yola: hoorn

From Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós (with change in gender).

(rare, heraldry) A heraldic depiction of a horn.

A horn (keratinous growth):
A heraldic depiction of a horn.


antelope

antelopes (plural)
antlop (alternative)
anteloppe (alternative)
antyloppe (alternative)
antlope (alternative)
antilope (alternative)
antelop (alternative)

desctree

English: antelope
→ Irish: antalóp
→ Manx: antelope

Scots: antelope

From Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops).


trace

traces (plural)
traas (alternative)
trase (alternative)

English: trace

Scots: trace

From Old French trace, from tracer, tracier.


bole

boles (plural)
bolen (plural)
bule (alternative)
bul (alternative)
bolle (alternative)
boule (alternative)
bool (alternative)
boole (alternative)

English: bull

Scots: bul, bull

From a mixture of Old English bula, *bulla, and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô.


whit

head

whit (plural and weak singular white, comparative whitter, superlative whittest)

white (plural)
white (singular weak)
whitter (comparative)
whittest (superlative)
hwit (alternative)
white (alternative)
whyte (alternative)
whitt (alternative)
whytt (alternative)
whyt (alternative)
whiȝt (alternative)
qwyght (alternative)
ȝwijt (alternative)
wyghte (alternative)
whiyt (alternative)
whijt (alternative)

English: white (see there for further descendants)

Scots: quhite, fyte, fite, whyte, white

Yola: whit

Inherited from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz.


chef

English: chief (see there for further descendants)

Scots: chief

From Old French chief, from Latin caput.

cheef (alternative)
cheefe (alternative)
chefe (alternative)
chief (alternative)
chif (alternative)
chife (alternative)
chyeef (alternative)
chyff (alternative)


fret

frettes (plural)
ffrett (alternative)
frett (alternative)

English: fret

Borrowed from Old French fret, past participle of fraindre; compare freten (“to decorate”).


spore

spores (plural)
sporen (plural)
spor (alternative)
spure (alternative)
spwre (alternative)
spuyre (alternative)
spurre (alternative)
spur (alternative)
spoure (alternative)
spourre (alternative)
spowrre (alternative)
spoor (alternative)
sporre (alternative)

English: spur

Scots: spur

Yola: spourr

From Old English spora, spura, from Proto-West Germanic *spurō, from Proto-Germanic *spurô.

(heraldry, rare) A heraldic depiction of a spur.


molde

English: mold, mould, mool

Scots: muild, moud

From Old English molde, from Proto-West Germanic *moldu, from Proto-Germanic *muldō.

mold (alternative)
moold (alternative)
moolde (alternative)
moulde (alternative)
mowlde (alternative)
mulde (alternative)


bordure

bordures (plural)
bordeure (alternative)
bordoure (alternative)
bourdour (alternative)
bourdur (alternative)

English: border; bordure

Scots: border, bordour

Borrowed from Old French bordeure; equivalent to bord (“board”) + -ure.

(heraldry) A heraldic border; a bordure.

An edge, boundary, or demarcation:
A heraldic border; a bordure.


unicorne

unicornes (plural)
unycorne (alternative)
unycorn (alternative)
unicorn (alternative)
unikorn (alternative)

English: unicorn

Scots: unicorn

From Anglo-Norman unicorne, from Latin ūnicornis.


dragoun

dragouns (plural)
dragon (alternative)
dragoune (alternative)
dragun (alternative)

English: dragon (see there for further descendants)

Scots: draigon

Borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin dracō, dracōnem, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of drake (“dragon”).


yelow

English: yellow,

Scots: yella, yelly, yallow

From Old English ġeolu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wós.

yelewe (alternative)
ȝelowe (alternative)
ȝelew (alternative)
ȝelow (alternative)
yelwe (alternative)
ȝelwe (alternative)
ȝalow (alternative)


oule

oules (plural)
owle (alternative)
ule (alternative)
howle (alternative)
owlle (alternative)
oul (alternative)

English: owl

Scots: oul, ool

Inherited from Old English ūle, from Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ.


poynt

poyntes (plural)
poyns (plural)
poynte (alternative)
point (alternative)
pointe (alternative)
poyinte (alternative)
poinȝte (alternative)
ponte (alternative)
puinte (alternative)
pynte (alternative)
peynt (alternative)

English: point

Yola: pint, peint

Borrowed from Old French point, puint, pointe and Anglo-Norman puingte.


feeld

feeldes (plural)
feelde (alternative)
feld (alternative)
felde (alternative)
field (alternative)
veld (alternative)

English: field

desc

Scots: fielth, felth, feilth, feld, feild

(heraldry) A field (background of a shield).


sparre

sparres (plural)
spare (alternative)
sparr (alternative)
spere (alternative)
sperr (alternative)
sperre (alternative)

English: spar

Scots: spar

From Middle Low German or Middle Dutch sparre, from Proto-West Germanic *sparrō, from Proto-Germanic *sparrô.


bendel

Yola: bandēle

Borrowed from Old French bendel, bandel, diminutive of bende, bande. (Related to English bandeau.)


tressour

English: tressure

A combination of Old French tresseor and tressure.

tressoure (alternative)
tressore (alternative)
tressure (alternative)
tresour (alternative)
trissoure (alternative)

(heraldry) border near the edge of a shield


asure

English: azure

Scots: asure

→ Welsh: asur

From Old French azur, in turn borrowed from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward), borrowed from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard).

asur (alternative)
asour (alternative)
azur (alternative)
azour (alternative)
azure (alternative)


purpel

English: purple

Scots: purpill, purple

From Old English purpel, purpul, from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

purple (alternative)
purpul(le) (alternative)
pourpul (alternative)
purpalle (alternative)
porpel (alternative)
purple (alternative)
purpul(le) (alternative)
porpil(le) (alternative)
porpul (alternative)
purpre (alternative)


purpel

English: purple

Scots: purpill, purple


cok

cokkes (plural)
cock (alternative)
cocke (alternative)
coke (alternative)
cokke (alternative)
cooke (alternative)
koc (alternative)
kok (alternative)

English: cock

Scots: cock, cok

Yola: cuck

From Old English coc, cocc, from Proto-West Germanic *kokk.


lesarde

lesards (plural)
lesard (alternative)
leesarde (alternative)
lisard (alternative)
lisarde (alternative)
lysard (alternative)
lysarde (alternative)
lyzard (alternative)
lizard (alternative)
lizarde (alternative)
lacert (alternative)
lacerta (alternative)

English: lizard (← lizard)

Scots: lesart (obsolete)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman lusard, from Latin lacertus; some forms are remodelled on the Latin etymon.

(rare, heraldry) A depiction of a lizard on a coat of arms.


ermyne

ermynes (plural)
armyn (alternative)
armyne (alternative)
ermin (alternative)
ermine (alternative)
ermyn (alternative)
hermyn (alternative)

English: ermine

Scots: ermine

Borrowed from Old French ermine, ermin; further etymology is disputed.

(heraldry) Heraldic ermine; white with black spots.


ermyne

Borrowed from Middle French erminé; equivalent to ermyn + -e (participial suffix).

(rare, heraldry) Having an inverted ermine pattern (black spots on white)


faucoun

faucouns (plural)
falcon (alternative)
faucon (alternative)
faulcon (alternative)
faukon (alternative)
ffaucoun (alternative)
faucun (alternative)
fawcon (alternative)
facoun (alternative)
facon (alternative)

English: falcon

Scots: faucon

Borrowed from Old French faucon, falcon, from Latin falcōnem, accusative singular of falcō.

(heraldry, rare) A heraldic image of a falcon.


stremere

stremeres (plural)
stremare (alternative)
stremer (alternative)
stremour (alternative)

English: streamer

From strem (“stream”) + -ere (suffix forming agent nouns).

af

(rare, heraldry) A symbol resembling a star.


blasoun

blasouns (plural)
blason (alternative)
blazoun (alternative)

English: blazon

Borrowed from Old French blason, of unknown origin.