dry

drȳ (canonical masculine)
drȳas (nominative plural)
drȳ (nominative singular)
drȳas (nominative plural)
drȳ (accusative singular)
drȳas (accusative plural)
drȳes (genitive singular)
drȳa (genitive plural)
drȳe (dative singular)
drȳum (dative plural)

Middle English: dri, driȝ, dry

⇒ Middle English: driȝmann, driȝmenn pl

Borrowed from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Brythonic *drüw, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (“druid”).

late 10th century, Ælfric, "Passion of St. Julian and his wife Basilissa"
Gehelp urum godum and hat to þe gefeccan þisne dry Iulianum þe ure goda anlicnysse mid ealle to-brytte...

Help our gods, and command men to bring thee this sorcerer Julianus, who hath utterly broken the images of our gods,...

Hīe woldon forbærnan þone drȳ. ― They wanted to burn the wizard. (Ælfric’s Homilies, volume 1.)


wicca

wiċċa (canonical masculine)
wiċċa (nominative singular)
wiċċan (nominative plural)
wiċċan (accusative singular)
wiċċan (accusative plural)
wiċċan (genitive singular)
wiċċena (genitive plural)
wiċċan (dative singular)
wiċċum (dative plural)

Middle English: wicche, wikke, wikked

English: witch, → Wicca, wicked

Scots: wich, wicked, wicket

From Proto-Germanic *wikkô (“necromancer, sorcerer”).
Further etymology uncertain; apparently from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“separate, divide”), conjectured to be because of early Germanic divinatory practices to do with casting lots (cleromancy).
The exact etymology is problematic. R. Lühr (Expressivität und Lautgesetz im Germanischen, Heidelberg (1988), p. 354) connects wigol "prophetic, mantic", wīglian "to practice divination" (Middle Low German wichelen (“bewitch”) and suggests Proto-Germanic *wigōn, via Kluge's law becoming *wikkōn. The basic form would then be the feminine, wicce /ˈwɪt͡ʃe/, from *wikkæ, from *wikkōn with palatalization due to the preceding i and the following *æ, from *ōn. The palatal -cc- /t͡ʃ/ in wicca would then be analogous to the feminine.
An alternative possibility is to derive the palatal /t͡ʃ/ directly from the verb wiccian, from *wikkija (OED, s.v. witch). Lühr conversely favours derivation of this verb from the noun.

der

c. 890, Ælfred, Domboc, Prologue
Ða fæmnan þe gewuniað onfon gealdorcræftigan ⁊ scinlæcan ⁊ wiccan, ne læt þu ða libban.

Women who are accustomed to receiving enchanters and sorceresses and witches, do not let them live.

wizard, sorcerer, magician, druid, necromancer


wiccecræft

wiċċecræft (canonical masculine)
wiċċecræft (nominative singular)
wiċċecræftas (nominative plural)
wiċċecræft (accusative singular)
wiċċecræftas (accusative plural)
wiċċecræftes (genitive singular)
wiċċecræfta (genitive plural)
wiċċecræfte (dative singular)
wiċċecræftum (dative plural)

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Middle English: wicchecraft, wicche craft(e), wicchecrafte, wicchecreft, wich-crafte, wiche-craft, wichecrafte, witchcraft, wycche crauffte, wycchecraft, wychecraft, wychecreft, wytchecraft
English: witchcraft

Hǣðensċipe biþ þæt man dēofolġield weorðiġe, þæt is þæt man weorðiġe hǣðenu godu and sunnan oþþe mōnan, fȳr oþþe flōd, wæterwiellas oþþe stānas oþþe ǣniġes cynnes wudutreowu, oþþe wiċċecræft lufiġe oþþe morðweorc ġefremme on ǣniġe wisan, oþþe on blōte oþþe frihte, oþþe swelcra gedwimera ǣniġ þing drēoge.

c. 1021, Wulfstan, Winchester Code of Cnut, article 5.1:

Worshiping idols is a kind of paganism, whether one worships heathen gods and the sun or the moon, or fire or flood, or wells or stones or any kind of forest trees, or if one loves witchcraft or commits murder in any way, either by sacrifice or by divination, or takes any part in similar delusions.


gealdor

ġealdor (canonical neuter)
ġealdor (nominative singular)
ġealdru (nominative plural)
ġealdor (accusative singular)
ġealdru (accusative plural)
ġealdres (genitive singular)
ġealdra (genitive plural)
ġealdre (dative singular)
ġealdrum (dative plural)

Middle English: galder


galdre

galdre (nominative singular)
galdras (nominative plural)
galdre (accusative singular)
galdras (accusative plural)
galdres (genitive singular)
galdra (genitive plural)
galdre (dative singular)
galdrum (dative plural)

From galdor (“enchantment”) + -ere (“agent suffix”).


drycræft

drȳcræft (canonical masculine)
drȳcræft (nominative singular)
drȳcræftas (nominative plural)
drȳcræft (accusative singular)
drȳcræftas (accusative plural)
drȳcræftes (genitive singular)
drȳcræfta (genitive plural)
drȳcræfte (dative singular)
drȳcræftum (dative plural)

Middle English: drycræft

late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint George, Martyr"
...and bēo ic scyldiġ ġif ic his scȳncræft ne mæġ mid ealle ādwǣscan mid mīnum drȳcræfte.

...and may I be guilty if I cannot totally extinguish his magic by my sorcery.


tunglere

tunglere (nominative singular)
tungleras (nominative plural)
tunglere (accusative singular)
tungleras (accusative plural)
tungleres (genitive singular)
tunglera (genitive plural)
tunglere (dative singular)
tunglerum (dative plural)


cofgod

cōfgod (canonical masculine)
cōfgodas (nominative plural)
cōfgod (nominative singular)
cōfgodas (nominative plural)
cōfgod (accusative singular)
cōfgodas (accusative plural)
cōfgodes (genitive singular)
cōfgoda (genitive plural)
cōfgode (dative singular)
cōfgodum (dative plural)

From cōfa (“chamber, inner room”) + god (“god”).


husl

hūsl (canonical neuter)
hūsl (nominative singular)
hūsl (nominative plural)
hūsl (accusative singular)
hūsl (accusative plural)
hūsles (genitive singular)
hūsla (genitive plural)
hūsle (dative singular)
hūslum (dative plural)

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Middle English: housel, hoosyl, hosel, hosil, hosill, hosol, housil, housul, housyl, housyll, howsel, howsell, howsill, husel, husell, husul
English: housel (archaic)
Scots: hoozle, ouzle (obsolete)

From Proto-West Germanic *hunsl, from Proto-Germanic *hunslą (“offering, sacrifice”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwen- (“holy”). Cognate with Old Norse húsl (“Eucharist”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌻 (hunsl, “offering, sacrifice”), Proto-Slavic *svętъ (“holy, sacred”).

cog

late 10th century, Ælfric, "Pastoral Letter for Wulfsige"
Þæt hūsl is Cristes līchama, nā līchamlīċe ac gāstlīċe.

The Eucharist is the body of Christ, not physically but spiritually.


hellruna

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hellrūna m (nominative plural hellrūnan)

hellrūna (canonical masculine)
hellrūnan (nominative plural)

From Proto-Germanic *haljōrūnô, equivalent to hell (“underworld; hell”) + rūna (“consulter; counsellor”). Cognate with Old High German hellirūna (“necromancy”).

cog

one skilled in the mysteries of hell; a sorcerer; necromancer


helrynegu

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helrȳneġu f (nominative plural helrȳneġa)

helrȳneġu (canonical feminine)
helrȳneġa (nominative plural)
helrȳneġu (nominative singular)
helrȳneġa (nominative plural)
helrȳneġe (accusative singular)
helrȳneġa (accusative plural)
helrȳneġe (genitive singular)
helrȳneġa (genitive plural)
helrȳneġe (dative singular)
helrȳneġum (dative plural)

From Proto-West Germanic *halljurūnagī, from Proto-Germanic *haljōrūnagį̄.


hellrun

hellrūn (canonical feminine)
hellrūna (nominative plural)
hellrūn (nominative singular)
hellrūna (nominative plural)
hellrūne (nominative plural)
hellrūne (accusative singular)
hellrūna (accusative plural)
hellrūne (accusative plural)
hellrūne (genitive singular)
hellrūna (genitive plural)
hellrūne (dative singular)
hellrūnum (dative plural)

Presumably from Proto-Germanic *haljōrūnō. A possible cognate of Gothic *𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌾𐍉𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌰 (*haljōruna) (mentioned in a Latin text in the form of haliurunna (“witch”)); see the Latin entry for details. More at hellrūna.

a sorceress; one who has a spirit of divination


malscrung

malsċrung (canonical feminine)
malsċrung (nominative singular)
malsċrunga (nominative plural)
malsċrunge (nominative plural)
malsċrunge (accusative singular)
malsċrunga (accusative plural)
malsċrunge (accusative plural)
malsċrunge (genitive singular)
malsċrunga (genitive plural)
malsċrunge (dative singular)
malsċrungum (dative plural)

[ˈmɑɫ.ʃruŋɡ]

From *malscrian + -ung. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *malskaz (“soft”). Cognate with Old Saxon malskrung (“witchcraft”), Old High German malscrunc (“fascination, empty praise”). More at English masker.


Fearr

Fearr (nominative singular)
Fearr (accusative singular)
Fearres (genitive singular)
Fearre (dative singular)

From fearr (“bull”), a semantic loan from Latin Taurus.


Getwisan

Ġetwisan (canonical masculine plural)
Ġetwisan (nominative plural)
Ġetwisan (accusative plural)
Ġetwisena (genitive plural)
Ġetwisum (dative plural)

From the plural of ġetwisa (“twin”), translating Latin Geminī.

c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice
Sume naman sind ēac þe nabbaþ ānfeald ġetæl, ac bēoþ ǣfre maniġfealdlīċe ġecwedene, swā swā bēoþ twā þāra twelf tācna, Ġetwisan and Fiscas.

There are also some nouns that don't have a singular number, but are always used in the plural, including two of the twelve Zodiac signs, Gemini and Pisces.


dwolcræft

dwolcræft (nominative singular)
dwolcræftas (nominative plural)
dwolcræft (accusative singular)
dwolcræftas (accusative plural)
dwolcræftes (genitive singular)
dwolcræfta (genitive plural)
dwolcræfte (dative singular)
dwolcræftum (dative plural)


getacnian

ġetācnian (canonical)
ġetācnian (infinitive)
ġetācnienne (infinitive)
ġetācniġe (first-person present singular)
ġetācnode (first-person past singular)
ġetācnast (present second-person singular)
ġetācnodest (past second-person singular)
ġetācnaþ (present singular third-person)
ġetācnode (past singular third-person)
ġetācniaþ (plural present)
ġetācnodon (past plural)
ġetācniġe (present singular)
ġetācnode (past singular)
ġetācniġen (plural present)
ġetācnoden (past plural)
ġetācna (imperative past present singular)
ġetācniaþ (imperative past plural present)
ġetācniende (imperative present)
ġetācnod (imperative past)


tungolwitga

tungolwītga (canonical masculine)
tungolwītga (nominative singular)
tungolwītgan (nominative plural)
tungolwītgan (accusative singular)
tungolwītgan (accusative plural)
tungolwītgan (genitive singular)
tungolwītgena (genitive plural)
tungolwītgan (dative singular)
tungolwītgum (dative plural)

Compound of tungol (“star”) + wītga (“prophet”). Displaced by English astrologer. Compare Old Polish gwiazdomówca or Ancient Greek ἀστρολόγος (astrológos), which are formed using similar lexemes.

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript A, year 2

Then astrologers from the east came to worship Christ.

Þā tungolwītgan of ēastdǣle cōmon tō þon þæt hīe Crist weorðoden.


tidsceawere

tīdsċēawere (canonical masculine)
tīdsċēawere (nominative singular)
tīdsċēaweras (nominative plural)
tīdsċēawere (accusative singular)
tīdsċēaweras (accusative plural)
tīdsċēaweres (genitive singular)
tīdsċēawera (genitive plural)
tīdsċēawere (dative singular)
tīdsċēawerum (dative plural)

From tīd (“time”) + sċēawere (“spy, guard”)


steorwigle

steorwiġle (canonical neuter)
steorwiġle (nominative singular)
steorwiġlas (nominative plural)
steorwiġle (accusative singular)
steorwiġlas (accusative plural)
steorwiġles (genitive singular)
steorwiġla (genitive plural)
steorwiġle (dative singular)
steorwiġlum (dative plural)

From steorra (“star”) + wiġle (“divination”)


gealdorcræft

ġealdorcræft (canonical masculine)
ġealdorcræft (nominative singular)
ġealdorcræftas (nominative plural)
ġealdorcræft (accusative singular)
ġealdorcræftas (accusative plural)
ġealdorcræftes (genitive singular)
ġealdorcræfta (genitive plural)
ġealdorcræfte (dative singular)
ġealdorcræftum (dative plural)

the art of magic, incantation, enchanting


wyrmgalere

wyrmgalere (nominative singular)
wyrmgaleras (nominative plural)
wyrmgalere (accusative singular)
wyrmgaleras (accusative plural)
wyrmgaleres (genitive singular)
wyrmgalera (genitive plural)
wyrmgalere (dative singular)
wyrmgalerum (dative plural)

From wyrm (“worm, dragon”) + galere (“enchanter”)


circulcræft

circulcræft (nominative singular)
circulcræft (accusative singular)
circulcræftes (genitive singular)
circulcræfte (dative singular)


atorcræft

ātorcræft (canonical)
ātorcræft (nominative singular)
ātorcræftas (nominative plural)
ātorcræft (accusative singular)
ātorcræftas (accusative plural)
ātorcræftes (genitive singular)
ātorcræfta (genitive plural)
ātorcræfte (dative singular)
ātorcræftum (dative plural)