Language Old English: Names And Words

Description:	Old English, ancestor of modern English, since around 500 AD until around 1100 AD
Family/group:	Germanic family

Word	Language	Translations	Name Groups
ac	Old English	the oak	Oakley, Oakley
aedel	Old English		Ethel
aelf	Old English	the elf	Alfred/Alfreda, Alvin, Elfriede
aesc	Old English	the ash (a tree)	Ashley/Ashley, Ashton/Ashton, Nash
baili	Old English	the bailiff (an official at a court)	Bailey/Bailey
bald	Old English	bold, brave	Balthild
beald	Old English	bold, brave	Kimball
beck	Old English	the brook	Becket
beo	Old English	the bee	Beowulf
beofor	Old English	the beaver	Beverly
beonet	Old English	bent	Bentley/Bentley, Benton
beorce	Old English	the birch (a tree)	Berkeley
beorht	Old English	bright	Osbert
beornan	Old English	to burn	Brinley
berned	Old English	burnt	Brinley
blac	Old English	pale	Blake/Blake
blaec	Old English	black	Blake/Blake
brad	Old English	broad	Bradford, Bradley, Broderick
broc	Old English	the brook	Brooks/Brooke
brocc	Old English	the badger (a kind of animal)	Brock
brom	Old English	the broom (a plant)	Brandon
brord	Old English	the spear, the pike (a sharp point or spike)	Willibrord
brycg	Old English	the bridge	Bristol
burg	Old English	the fortress	Cyneburga
byre	Old English	the cow sheds	Byron
caester	Old English	the Roman fort	Lester
cart	Old English	the cart	Carter, Carter
caru	Old English	the care	Corliss
cealc	Old English	the chalk, the limestone	Chelsea
cene	Old English		Kenelm
ceol	Old English	the ship	Kelsey/Kelsey
ceorl	Old English	the peasant, the freeman (somebody with full citizen rights)	Carlton
claeg	Old English	the clay	Clayton
clerc	Old English	the cleric	Clark
clif	Old English	the cliff	Clifford, Clifton, Clive
cnocc	Old English	the round hill	Knox
col	Old English	the coal, black	Cole, Colton
cyne	Old English	royal	Cyneburga, Kennard, Kenton, Kimball, Kinsey
cyning	Old English	the king	Kingsley, Kingston
daeg	Old English	the day	Daisy, Dawn
dael	Old English	the dale, the valley	Dale, Dalton, Kendall/Kendall
deag	Old English	the dye	Dexter
denu	Old English	the valley	Camden, Dean/Deana, Denver, Denver, Holden
deore	Old English	dear	Darwin
dragon	Old English	the dragon	Drake
dun	Old English	the hill, the dune	Brandon, Landon, Lyndon, Sheldon
dunn	Old English	dark-colored	Dunstan
ead	Old English	the wealth	Edgar/Edgarda, Edith, Edmund/Edmonda, Edward/Eduarda, Edwin/Edwina
eage	Old English	the eye	Daisy
eald	Old English	old	Alden, Elton
east	Old English	the east	Easton
eofor	Old English	the boar (a male pig)	Everleigh
eorl	Old English	the nobleman, the warrior	Earl/Earline
ey	Old English	the wetland	Lindsay/Lindsay
fae	Old English	the fay, the fairy	Faye
fenn	Old English	the fen (swamp)	Vance
ferian	Old English	to carry, to transport	Denver, Denver
ford	Old English	the ford (shallow part of a river used for crossing it)	Clifford, Ford, Rutherford
gar	Old English	the spear	Edgar/Edgarda, Gary
giefu	Old English	the gift	Sunniva
graeg	Old English	grey	Graham
graf	Old English		Grover
greyve	Old English	the steward	Grayson
guage	Old English	the gage (a measuring tool)	Gage
gyth	Old English	the fight, the battle	Edith
haefen	Old English	the haven, the port	Haven
haes	Old English	the brushwood, the underwood	Hayes
haeth	Old English	the heath (large area of uncultivated land)	Hadley, Heath
ham	Old English	the home, the house	Beckham, Graham
hara	Old English	the hare	Harlan, Harley/Harley
hathu	Old English	the fight, the battle	Villads
hearpe	Old English	the harp	Harper/Harper
heg	Old English	the hay (dry grass)	Hayley
hege	Old English	the hedge	Hayes
helm	Old English
here	Old English	the army, the host (in the sense of a group of people)	Harlow
hild	Old English	war, the battle	Balthild
hlaw	Old English	the hill, the mound	Harlow
holh	Old English	the hollow (the low part of a surface or a cave), the hole	Holden
hramsan	Old English	the wild garlic	Ramsey
hremm	Old English	the raven	Remington
hreod	Old English		Ridley
hrod	Old English	the fame	Rodney, Rohesia, Rowena
hros	Old English	the horse	Rohesia
hrycg	Old English	the ridge	Broderick
hryther	Old English		Rutherford
hus	Old English	the house	Houston
hwit	Old English	white	Whitley, Whitney
hyth	Old English	the landing place, the harbor	Chelsea
jager	Old English	the peddler, the carter	Jagger
keel	Old English	the keel	Kelton
laege	Old English	fallow (e.g. untilled farmland)	Leland
land	Old English	the land	Harlan, Landrich/Landriche, Leland, Rylan/Rylan
lane	Old English	the lane	Lane
lang	Old English	long, tall	Landon, Langston
leac	Old English	the leek (a vegetable)	Layton/Layton
leah	Old English	the wood (in the sense of forest), the clearing (open place within a wood), the meadow	Ainsley, Ashley/Ashley, Bentley/Bentley, Berkeley, Beverly, Bradley, Brinley, Everleigh, Hadley, Harley/Harley, Hayley, Henley, Huxley, Kimberley, Kingsley, Lawley, Lee/Lee, Marley/Marley, Oakley, Oakley, Presley, Ridley, Riley/Riley, Shelley, Shirley, Stanley, Wesley, Whitley
leas	Old English	free from, without, less	Corliss
lind	Old English	the linden	Lyndon
macian	Old English	to make