Category: Lexicon

  • The Ancestral Lexicon

    bâ [n] a bone [v] to structure, to give form (as a bone) pé [n] a young fern [v] bé [n] a young bug zaxá  [n] a banana plant [v] to fruit (as a banana plant) ká [n] the present; existence [v] to be, to exist, to live ké [n] the foreseeable future [v] will exist in the near future […]

  • rowner

    Etymology | Origin Middle English rouner ‘whisperer’ Old English runere ‘whisperer’

  • rown

    Etymology | Origin Old English run ‘rune, mystery, secret’

  • speed

    Etymology | Origin Old English sped ‘luck, success, wealth’, as in Godspeed

  • chistle

    Definition | Meaning sand Etymology | Origin Old English ceosol ‘sand’

  • sunderland

    Definition | Meaning the other world Etymology | Origin Old English sundorland ‘land set apart, private property’, as in the surname Sunderland Old English sundor ‘private, set apart, special’

  • edun

    Etymology | Origin Old English ea ‘water’ Old English dun ‘down, hill’

  • swallow

    Definition | Meaning a hollow in the ground into which water runs and does not appear again

  • tlick

    Definition | Meaning to snap the fingers

  • hidebound

    Etymology | Origin hide-bund