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
maedwe	Old English	the meadow	Meadow
man	Old English	the man	Sherman
mearth	Old English	the pine marten (an animal)	Marley/Marley
mere	Old English	the lake, the sea	Marlowe
milde	Old English		Mildred
mund	Old English	the protection, the protector	Edmund/Edmonda
mylen	Old English	the mill	Millard, Milton
myrig	Old English	pleasant	Marley/Marley
neowe	Old English	new	Neva
os	Old English	the deity	Osbert, Oswin
pawa	Old English	the peacock	Payton/Payton
preost	Old English	the priest	Presley, Preston
raed	Old English	the counsel	Alfred/Alfreda
ridere	Old English	the rider	Ryder, Ryder
rudi	Old English	ruddy, red	Reed
ryge	Old English	the rye (a kind of grain)	Riley/Riley, Rylan/Rylan
sagu	Old English	the saw	Sawyer/Sawyer
sceran	Old English	to shear	Sherman
scir	Old English	bright	Shirley
scylf	Old English	the shelf	Shelley
sige	Old English	the victory	Kelsey/Kelsey, Kinsey
slaed	Old English	the valley	Slade
stan	Old English	the stone	Dunstan, Langston, Stanley
steorra	Old English	the star	Sterling
stig	Old English	the house	Stewart
stow	Old English	the assembly place	Bristol
sunne	Old English	the sun	Sunniva
suth	Old English	the south	Sutton, Sutton
tannian	Old English	to tan (to convert hide into leather)	Tanner
thryd	Old English		Elfriede, Mildred
tigele	Old English	the tile	Tyler/Tyler
tigeler	Old English	the tiler (somebody who tiles roofs)	Tyler/Tyler
todde	Old English	the fox	Todd
tucian	Old English	to full (shrink and thicken (woolen) cloth)	Tucker
tun	Old English	the town, the settlement, the homestead	Ashton/Ashton, Benton, Braxton, Carlton, Clayton, Clifton, Clinton, Colton, Dalton, Dayton, Easton, Elton, Houston, Keaton, Kelton, Kensington, Kenton, Kingston, Layton/Layton, Maxton, Milton, Paxton, Payton/Payton, Preston, Princeton, Remington, Royston, Tatum/Tatum, Weston, Winston, Winton
wade	Old English	the ford (shallow part of a river used for crossing it)	Wade
waegn	Old English	the wagon	Wayne
wael	Old English	the pool	Maxwell
waelisc	Old English	the foreigner, the stranger	Welch
wealcan	Old English	to roll	Walker
wealcian	Old English	to roll up, to muffle up	Walker
weard	Old English	the warden, the guard	Edward/Eduarda, Howard, Kennard, Millard, Stewart
west	Old English	the west	Wesley, Weston
wic	Old English	the dwelling, the farm, the dairy farm	Chadwick
willa	Old English	the will	Villads, Willibrord
win	Old English	the wine	Winston
wind	Old English	the wind	Winton
wine	Old English	the friend	Alden, Alvin, Darwin, Edwin/Edwina, Oswin, Rowena, Sherwin, Winston
wulf	Old English	the wolf	Beowulf