quarter

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.


ostrich

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

English: rose (see there for further descendants)

Scots: rose

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 Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis.


vert

English: vert


swan

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)

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

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

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

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

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

desctree

English: antelope
→ Irish: antalóp
→ Manx: antelope

Scots: antelope

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


stale

English: stale

Probably from uncommon Anglo-Norman estale (“pigeon used to lure hawks”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic, probably *standaną (“to stand”).

bor

Stale, of fowlynge or byrdys takynge, stacionaria.

(falconry, hunting) A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap


trace

English: trace

Scots: trace

Yola: threesh, treesh

From Old French trace, from tracer, tracier.


bole

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)

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.


fret

English: fret

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


riot

English: riot

Scots: royet, royt

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman riot, riote, of unknown origin.

(hunting) A situation where a hound is misled by scents other than the quarry.


ponder

From Middle English ponderen, from Old French ponderer (“to weigh, balance, ponder”) from Latin ponderare (“to weigh, ponder”), from pondus (“weight”), from pendere (“to weigh”).

der

(glassblowing, obsolete) A fourteenth-century unit of glass.


spore

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.


tesen

enm-verb

tesen (third-person singular simple present teseth, present participle tesende, tesynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle tesed)

teseth (present singular third-person)
tesende (participle present)
tesynge (participle present)
tesed (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
tesen (infinitive)
to tesen (infinitive)
tese (infinitive)
tese (first-person present singular)
tesed (first-person past singular)
tesest (present second-person singular)
tesedest (past second-person singular)
teseth (present singular third-person)
tesed (past singular third-person)
tese (present singular subjunctive)
tesed (past singular subjunctive)
tese (imperative present singular)
tesen (plural present)
tese (plural present)
teseden (past plural)
tesede (past plural)
teseth (imperative plural present)
tese (imperative plural present)
tesynge (participle present)
tesende (participle present)
tesed (participle past)
ytesed (participle past)

English: tease

Scots: tease, taise

Yola: tyshe

From Old English tǣsan, from Proto-West Germanic *taisijan


brede

Scots: brede

From Old English brǣde, brǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *brādō, from Proto-Germanic *brēdô (“meat, roast”). Doublet of brawne.

(hunting) One of thirty-two choice parts of a boar for roasting.


bordure

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

English: unicorn

Scots: unicorn

From Anglo-Norman unicorne, from Latin ūnicornis.


dragoun

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.


rusen

rusen (third-person singular simple present ruseth, present participle rusende, rusynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle rused)

ruseth (present singular third-person)
rusende (participle present)
rusynge (participle present)
rused (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
rusen (infinitive)
to rusen (infinitive)
ruse (infinitive)
ruse (first-person present singular)
rused (first-person past singular)
rusest (present second-person singular)
rusedest (past second-person singular)
ruseth (present singular third-person)
rused (past singular third-person)
ruse (present singular subjunctive)
rused (past singular subjunctive)
ruse (imperative present singular)
rusen (plural present)
ruse (plural present)
ruseden (past plural)
rusede (past plural)
ruseth (imperative plural present)
ruse (imperative plural present)
rusynge (participle present)
rusende (participle present)
rused (participle past)
yrused (participle past)

English: ruse

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman ruser, reuser; by surface analysis, ruse + -en (infinitival suffix).

surf

The mayſter hunte, anone fote hote / wyth his horne blewe thre mote / At the uncouplynge of hys houndes / wythin a whyle the herte founde is / Ihalowed, and rechaſed faſt / Longe tyme, and ſo at the laſt / Thys herte rouſed and ſtale awaye / Fro all the houndes a preuy waye

[c. 1368–1372 (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Dreame of Chaucer”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […] (in Middle English), [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC, folio cclxviii, verso, column 2, lines 375–382:

The master hunter, anon foothot [at once without stopping] / with his horne blew three mote [notes] / At the uncoupling of his hounds / within a while the hart found is / Hallooed, and rechased fast / Long time, and so at the last / This hart rused and stole away / From all the hounds a privy way

(hunting) To turn to elude hunters or their hunting dogs.


oule

English: owl

Scots: oul, ool

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


poynt

English: point

Yola: pint, peint

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


feeld

English: field

Scots: feld, feild

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


ryal

English: rial, ryal

Scots: rial, ryal

From Anglo-Norman reial, rial, from Latin rēgālis. Doublet of royal.

(Late Middle English, hunting) The second protrusion coming from a deer's antler.


werre

English: war

Scots: wer, weir, war

From Old English werre, wyrre, borrowed from Old Northern French werre, from Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).

(hunting, rare) The struggles of one's quarry.


chaunge

English: change

Scots: cheenge, chinge, cheynge

/ˈt͡ʃɔnd͡ʒ(ə)/

/ˈt͡ʃɔːnd͡ʒ(ə)/

Borrowed from Old French change, chaunge, from Latin cambium, from Gaulish cambion (“change”).

(rare, hunting) An attempt by a stag to escape pursuit.


herberer

English: harborer, harbourer

From herberwe + -er; compare herberjour.

(hunting) One who trails a quarry to its lair.


chek

English: check, cheque (see there for further descendants)

From Old French eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, borrowed from Arabic شَاه (šāh), borrowed from Persian شاه (šâh), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /šāh/), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /xšāyaθiya/, “king”). Compare ches.

(falconry, rare) A check. [from 15th c.]


sparre

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.

(heraldry) border near the edge of a shield


tyring

Oꝛ ellis take peꝛcelli Rootis and ſeꝛue hiꝛ with theyem in the ſame maneꝛ, and when ſhe tyrith holde rew ī yowre honde with the tyring and that ſhall make hiꝛ voide, bot it is peꝛlous to vſe it often that the Juce fall neꝛ ſpꝛyug in to hiꝛ yghes.

1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans:

(falconry) Bits of bone and tough organic material from a corpse given to hawks to abate their hunger.


asure

English: azure

Scots: asure

→ Welsh: asur

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


purpel

English: purple

Scots: purpill, purple

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


purpel

English: purple

Scots: purpill, purple


cok

English: cock

Scots: cock, cok

Yola: cuck

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


lesarde

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.


questen

questen (infinitive)
to questen (infinitive)
queste (infinitive)
queste (first-person present singular)
quested (first-person past singular)
questest (present second-person singular)
questedest (past second-person singular)
questeth (present singular third-person)
quested (past singular third-person)
queste (present singular subjunctive)
quested (past singular subjunctive)
queste (imperative present singular)
questen (plural present)
queste (plural present)
questeden (past plural)
questede (past plural)
questeth (imperative plural present)
queste (imperative plural present)
questynge (participle present)
questende (participle present)
quested (participle past)
yquested (participle past)

English: quest

From Old French quester, from Latin quaestō.

(hunting) To find one's quarry or catch.

(hunting) To howl or bark after finding one's quarry (as a hunting dog).


serchynge

English: searching

(rare, hunting) The process of finding one's quarry.


ermyne

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

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

English: streamer

(rare, heraldry) A symbol resembling a star.


wyspe

English: wisp

Scots: wisp, wusp

Perhaps related to whisk (“bunch of twigs, hair”). Cognate to Dutch wisp, dialectal Danish visp, Swedish visp, Norwegian Bokmål visp, etc.

(glassblowing, obsolete, rare) A fifteenth-century unit for measuring window glass.


routen

From Old English hrutan (“to make a noise; snore”). Compare Middle Dutch ruten, ruyten, Old Swedish ruta, Old Norse hrjóta (“to burst, spring forth”).

cog

(hunting) To shout at or direct hounds by shouting.


herberwen

herberwen (infinitive)
to herberwen (infinitive)
herberwe (infinitive)
herberwe (first-person present singular)
herberwed (first-person past singular)
herberwest (present second-person singular)
herberwedest (past second-person singular)
herberweth (present singular third-person)
herberwed (past singular third-person)
herberwe (present singular subjunctive)
herberwed (past singular subjunctive)
herberwe (imperative present singular)
herberwen (plural present)
herberwe (plural present)
herberweden (past plural)
herberwede (past plural)
herberweth (imperative plural present)
herberwe (imperative plural present)
herberwynge (participle present)
herberwende (participle present)
herberwed (participle past)
yherberwed (participle past)

English: harbor, harbour

Scots: hairbor, hairbour

From Old English herebeorgian; equivalent to herberwe + -en (infinitival suffix).


loyne

From Old French loigne, from Medieval Latin longia, longea.

(especially falconry) A cord used as a leash or restraint.


blasoun

English: blazon

Borrowed from Old French blason, of unknown origin.


creaunce

English: creance

Borrowed from Old French creance (earlier credance), from Latin crēdentia. Doublet of credence.


mayle

English: mail

Scots: mail

Borrowed from Old French maille, from Latin macula. Doublet of macula.

(falconry, rare) The chest plumage of an adult hawk.


hastelet

desc

English: haslet, acelet, harslet, hasslet

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman hastilet (compare continental Old French hastelet, modern Norman hâtelet), diminutive of haste (“spear, spit, roast meat”).

(hunting, in the plural) One of thirty-two choice parts of a boar for roasting.


vermyn

English: vermin, varmint

Scots: vermin, vermil

Borrowed from Old French vermin, vermine, from Vulgar Latin *verminum.

(hunting, often collective) Worthless or unwanted quarry.


ricchen

enm-verb

ricchen (third-person singular simple present riccheth, present participle ricchende, ricchynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle ricched)

riccheth (present singular third-person)
ricchende (participle present)
ricchynge (participle present)
ricched (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
ricchen (infinitive)
to ricchen (infinitive)
ricche (first-person present singular)
ricched (first-person past singular)
ricchest (present second-person singular)
ricchedest (past second-person singular)
riccheth (present singular third-person)
ricched (past singular third-person)
ricche (present singular subjunctive)
ricched (past singular subjunctive)
ricche (imperative present singular)
ricchen (plural present)
ricche (plural present)
riccheden (past plural)
ricchede (past plural)
riccheth (imperative plural present)
ricche (imperative plural present)
ricchynge (participle present)
ricchende (participle present)
ricched (participle past)
yricched (participle past)

Apparently inherited from Old English *ryċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *rukkijan, from Proto-Germanic *rukkijaną. Compare rokken.


shev

(glassblowing, obsolete) A fourteenth-century unit of glass.