MED

Middle English Dictionary

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Realizations (41)

Shift	Language	Lexeme	Source		Target	Page
#3045	Old English	wolcn	cloud	→	(in the plural) the sky, the heavens
#3846	Middle English	verrei	true	→	very	50985, 50986
#239	Middle English	writen	to engrave, carve, or scratch	→	to write
#4397	Middle English	pike (pikke, peke, piche, pig)	spike; a pointed tip or spike on a staff, pole, weapon, instrument of torture, etc.; a spike affixed to a door or wall; also, a spike used to tear or wound someone	→	pike Esox lucius
#4996	Old English	sleġe	blow, hit; death blow, murder	→	reed (in loom)
#5955	Middle English	target	light shield, often small and round in shape; a targe, buckler	→	shooting target
#7408	Middle English	chyne	spine	→	back (body part)
#2074	Middle English	planten	to plant, put (a seed or plant) in the ground	→	plant (biol.)
#8075	Middle English	feuē̆l, fewell	items to be burnt, firewood	→	fuel
#8231	Middle English	hocke, hokke, hoc	mallow	—	marsh mallow
#8251	Middle English	bed	bed	→	a close partner, especially one which one cohabits with; a concubine; a secondary female sexual partner
#8325	Middle English	wombe	stomach	—	womb
#2204	Middle English	barn	child, youth	→	young warrior
#5224	Middle English	barn	offspring, a son or daughter	—	infant, a child
#5224	Middle English	chīld	descendent (of particular parents), son or daughter	—	young child, a baby, boy or girl (usually to the age of puberty)
#8333	Middle English	girle, gyrle, gurle, geerle, garle	child of either sex	—	girl, young woman
#7203	Middle English	be	bee	→	bumblebee
#68	Middle English	morwe	morning	—	tomorrow
#3191	Middle English	cokkou, cuckow, kukkow, kockow, kokkow, cukkow, cockou, cokkow, kukkowe, cuccu	cuckoo	→	cuckold, deceived husband
#2916	Middle English	worm	worm	—	snake
#1706	Middle English	sowe	sow; a female pig	→	wood-louse
#9170	Middle English	boter	butter	→	butterfly
#3775	Middle English	coroune	crown (n.)	→	patch of shaved hair (usually of a monk)
#9205	Middle English	ere, eare	ear	→	earwig (Forficula auricularia)
#7432	Middle English	pisse	urine	→	ant
#1457	Middle English	boue, bowe	bow (weapon)	—	rainbow
#960	Middle English	axen, axien, asken, askien, aschen	to ask for, request	←	to ask, inquire
#3929	Middle English	glas	glass (material)	—	mirror
#3142	Middle English	price	price	—	award
#2993	Middle English	bref	brief; (rare) diminutive, little	→	(rare) stupid
#3220	Icelandic	gegna	(obsolete) to answer	—	to aid, help
#10440	Middle English	fader	father	→	godfather
#10486	Middle English	bal	ball (an object of spherical shape)	→	one's head
#2557	Middle English	frogge	frog	→	toad
#2541	Middle English	dregh	big	—	great
#744	Middle English	tonge	tongue (body part)	→	language
#10581	Middle English	nece	granddaughter	—	niece
#10628	Middle English	feynen	to lie, deceive	—	to fake, feign, defraud, counterfeit
#921	Middle English	helen	to hide, conceal	→	to embrace
#314	Old English	cwēad	dung, excrement	→	bad
#968	Middle English	qued	bad	→	evil