bar

bār (canonical masculine)
bār (nominative singular)
bāras (nominative plural)
bār (accusative singular)
bāras (accusative plural)
bāres (genitive singular)
bāra (genitive plural)
bāre (dative singular)
bārum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: bor, boor, bore, boore, bar, bare, bayre
English: boar
Scots: bair
Yola: boar


da

dā (canonical feminine)
dā (nominative singular)
dān (nominative plural)
dān (accusative singular)
dān (accusative plural)
dān (genitive singular)
dāna (genitive plural)
dān (dative singular)
dām (dative plural)
dāum (dative plural)

Middle English: da, do, doo

Scots: da, dae

English: doe

From Proto-West Germanic *daijā, from Proto-Germanic *dajjǭ.


bula

bula (nominative singular)
bulan (nominative plural)
bulan (accusative singular)
bulan (accusative plural)
bulan (genitive singular)
bulena (genitive plural)
bulan (dative singular)
bulum (dative plural)

Middle English: bole, bule, bul, bolle, boule, bool, boole
English: bull
Scots: bul, bull

From Proto-Germanic *bulô (“bull”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥no-, from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell up”)


catte

catte (nominative singular)
cattan (nominative plural)
cattan (accusative singular)
cattan (accusative plural)
cattan (genitive singular)
cattena (genitive plural)
cattan (dative singular)
cattum (dative plural)

Middle English: catte, katte

From Proto-Germanic *kattǭ. Cognate with Old Frisian katte, Old Saxon katta, Middle Dutch katte (Dutch kat), Old High German kazza (German Katze), Old Norse ketta (Swedish katta). The word existed in the Germanic languages in a masculine gender also, represented in Old English by catt. The word appears to be related to Late Latin cattus as well as to similar words in the Slavic and Celtic languages, but the ultimate source is uncertain. See cat for more.


bearg

bearg (nominative singular)
beargas (nominative plural)
bearg (accusative singular)
beargas (accusative plural)
bearges (genitive singular)
bearga (genitive plural)
bearge (dative singular)
beargum (dative plural)

Middle English: barow, bareȝ, bareh, barew, barwe, borwȝ
English: barrow

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *barug, from Proto-Germanic *barugaz: cognate with Old Frisian barch (West Frisian baarch), Old Saxon barug (Dutch barg), Old High German barug (dialectal German Barch), Old Norse bǫrgr.


hengest

henġest (canonical masculine)
henġest (nominative singular)
henġestas (nominative plural)
henġest (accusative singular)
henġestas (accusative plural)
henġestes (genitive singular)
henġesta (genitive plural)
henġeste (dative singular)
henġestum (dative plural)

desc

⇒ Middle English: henxman, henxtman, henshman

English: henchman

→ Scots: hanchman

Scots: hensman, henceman (obsolete)

From Proto-West Germanic *hangist, from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz.

Ān hundred wildra horsa and sixtīene tame henġestas

a hundred wild horses and sixteen tame stallions. (Diplomatarium Anglicum)


eofor

eofor (nominative singular)
eoforas (nominative plural)
eofor (accusative singular)
eoforas (accusative plural)
eofores (genitive singular)
eofora (genitive plural)
eofore (dative singular)
eoforum (dative plural)

Middle English: ēver

From Proto-West Germanic *ebur.
Cognate with Old Saxon ebur, Dutch ever, Old High German ebur (German Eber), Old Norse jǫfurr, also Latin aper.


eowu

eowu (nominative singular)
eowa (nominative plural)
eowe (accusative singular)
eowa (accusative plural)
eowe (genitive singular)
eowena (genitive plural)
eowe (dative singular)
eowenum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: ewe, awe, eu, ouwe, yeue, yowe
English: ewe
Scots: yowe, yhow
Yola: yowe

From Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz.
* Germanic cognates: Old Frisian ei, Old Saxon ewwi, Old High German ouwi (German Aue), Old Norse ær, Gothic 𐌰𐍅𐌴𐌸𐌹 (awēþi, “flock of sheep”).
* Indo-European cognates: Luwian 𒄩𒀀𒌑𒄿𒅖 (/ḫāwīs/), Latin ovis, Ancient Greek ὄϊς (óïs), Old Church Slavonic овьца (ovĭca) (Russian овца́ (ovcá)), Old Irish ói, Lithuanian avìs, Tocharian B awi.

Þā eowe man āsyndrede fram heora lambrum, and hīe belifon æt þām tūne, þǣr hīe ġemolcena wurdon.

The ewes were separated from their lambs, and they remained at the farm, where they were milked.


heorot

heort (nominative singular)
heortas (nominative plural)
heort (accusative singular)
heortas (accusative plural)
heortes (genitive singular)
heorta (genitive plural)
heorte (dative singular)
heortum (dative plural)

Middle English: hert, harte, hartt, heert, heort
English: hart
Scots: hert

From Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kerud- (Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (Latin cervus (“horn”)). Germanic cognates include Old Saxon hirot, Old High German hiruz, and Old Norse hjǫrtr.

Heorot

the great mead hall described in Beowulf


cocc

cocc (nominative singular)
coccas (nominative plural)
cocc (accusative singular)
coccas (accusative plural)
cocces (genitive singular)
cocca (genitive plural)
cocce (dative singular)
coccum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: cok, cocke, cock, kok, coke, cooke, cokke
English: cock
Scots: cock, cok
Yola: cuck

From Proto-West Germanic *kokk, probably ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate with Old Norse kokkr, Late Latin coccus (whence Old French coc, Modern French coq) from the same Germanic source.

onomatopoeic

imitative


oxa

oxa (nominative singular)
oxan (nominative plural)
oxan (accusative singular)
oxan (accusative plural)
oxan (genitive singular)
oxena (genitive plural)
oxna (genitive plural)
oxan (dative singular)
oxum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: oxe, hox, nox, occe, ocxe, okse, ox, oxhe, oxse
English: ox (see there for further descendants)
Scots: ox

c. 992, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Nativiity of Our Lord"
"Sē oxa oncnēow his hlāford, and sē assa his hlāfordes binne."
"The ox knows his master, and the ass his master's bin."
Þā ġeseah hēo þæt cild licgan on binne, ðǣr sē oxa and sē assa ġewunelīce fōdan sēcað.

Then saw she the child lying in the bin, where the ox and the ass usually seek food.

late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Deuteronomy 28:31

Your ox will be slaughtered in front of you, and you won't get to taste it.

Man slihþ þīnne oxan beforan þē, and þū his ne ābītst.


hana

hana (nominative singular)
hanan (nominative plural)
hanan (accusative singular)
hanan (accusative plural)
hanan (genitive singular)
hanena (genitive plural)
hanan (dative singular)
hanum (dative plural)

Middle English: *hane (attested in hane-crau)

From Proto-West Germanic *hanō, from Proto-Germanic *hanô.


bucca

buccan (nominative plural)
bucca (nominative singular)
buccan (nominative plural)
buccan (accusative singular)
buccan (accusative plural)
buccan (genitive singular)
buccena (genitive plural)
buccan (dative singular)
buccum (dative plural)

Middle English: bukke, bucke, buk, bocke, bucce, boke, buc
English: buck
Scots: buk, buke, buik
Yola: buch

From Proto-West Germanic *bukkō, from Proto-Germanic *bukkô (“male goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugo- (“buck”). Akin to Old High German boc, Old Norse bukkr, Middle Dutch boc, Avestan 𐬠𐬏𐬰𐬀 (būza, “buck, goat”), Old Armenian բուծ (buc, “lamb”), Old English bucc (“male deer”).


bucc

bucc (nominative singular)
buccas (nominative plural)
bucc (accusative singular)
buccas (accusative plural)
bucces (genitive singular)
bucca (genitive plural)
bucce (dative singular)
buccum (dative plural)

From Proto-West Germanic *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“male deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“ram”). Akin to Old High German boc, Old Norse bukkr, Old English bucca (“buck, male goat”).


stacga

stacga (nominative singular)
stacgan (nominative plural)
stacgan (accusative singular)
stacgan (accusative plural)
stacgan (genitive singular)
stacgena (genitive plural)
stacgan (dative singular)
stacgum (dative plural)

Middle English: stagge

English: stag

Volapük: stäg

From Proto-Germanic *staggijô (“stag, male animal, porcupine”), from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to prick, stick, pierce”), equivalent to *stac- (compare Old English staca) + -ga (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Old Norse steggi (“male animal, drake”).


ramm

ramm (nominative singular)
rammas (nominative plural)
ramm (accusative singular)
rammas (accusative plural)
rammes (genitive singular)
ramma (genitive plural)
ramme (dative singular)
rammum (dative plural)

Middle English: ramme, ram, rom

English: ram

Scots: ram


weþer

weþer (nominative singular)
weþras (nominative plural)
weþer (accusative singular)
weþras (accusative plural)
weþres (genitive singular)
weþra (genitive plural)
weþre (dative singular)
weþrum (dative plural)

Middle English: wether, weder

Scots: weddir

English: wether

From Proto-West Germanic *weþru, from Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“a yearling lamb; wether”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”). Cognate with Latin vitulus.


ganra

ganra (nominative singular)
ganran (nominative plural)
ganran (accusative singular)
ganran (accusative plural)
ganran (genitive singular)
ganrena (genitive plural)
ganran (dative singular)
ganrum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: gandre, gandere, gandir, gandur, gandyr, ganer, gonder
English: gander
Scots: ganare, ganer, ganner

→ Old Irish: ganndal

Irish: gandal

From Proto-West Germanic *ganʀō, from Proto-Germanic *ganzô (“gander”).


cwenfugol

cwēnfugol (canonical masculine)
cwēnfugol (nominative singular)
cwēnfuglas (nominative plural)
cwēnfugol (accusative singular)
cwēnfuglas (accusative plural)
cwēnfugles (genitive singular)
cwēnfugla (genitive plural)
cwēnfugle (dative singular)
cwēnfuglum (dative plural)


carlfugol

carlfugol (nominative singular)
carlfuglas (nominative plural)
carlfugol (accusative singular)
carlfuglas (accusative plural)
carlfugles (genitive singular)
carlfugla (genitive plural)
carlfugle (dative singular)
carlfuglum (dative plural)


fyxe

fyxe (nominative singular)
fyxan (nominative plural)
fyxan (accusative singular)
fyxan (accusative plural)
fyxan (genitive singular)
fyxena (genitive plural)
fyxan (dative singular)
fyxum (dative plural)

Middle English: fixen, ffixen
English: vixen

From Proto-West Germanic *fuhsini, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsinī.

Ærest on merce Cumb ðonne on grenan pytt ðonne on ðone torr æt mercecumbes æwielme ðonne on ðene waldes stan ðonne on ðone dic ðær esne ðone weg fordealf ðonon of dune on ðæs wælles heafod ðonne ðær of dune on broc oð tiddesford ðonne up on broc oð heottes dic to ðære flodan from ðære flodan of dūne ðær fyxan dic to broce gæð ⁊ ðonne of dune on broc oð sǣ.

847, Æthelwulf, Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici, published 1840:


turtla

turtla (nominative singular)
turtlan (nominative plural)
turtlan (accusative singular)
turtlan (accusative plural)
turtlan (genitive singular)
turtlena (genitive plural)
turtlan (dative singular)
turtlum (dative plural)


olfendmere

olfendmere (nominative singular)
olfendmeran (nominative plural)
olfendmeran (accusative singular)
olfendmeran (accusative plural)
olfendmeran (genitive singular)
olfendmerena (genitive plural)
olfendmeran (dative singular)
olfendmerum (dative plural)