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Old English words first recorded in the 8th century

6 Old English words whose earliest known written record dates from the 8th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

  1. bord

    800–899

    It is inherited from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board, plank; table; edge; shield”). Its cognates are Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (fotubaurd, “footstool”), Old Norse borð (“board…

  2. fell

    800–850

    It is inherited from Proto-West Germanic *fell, from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, hide”). The cognates are Old Norse fell beside fjall, Old Frisian fell, Old Saxon fel and Old High German fel…

  3. heah

    800–850

    It is inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”). The adjective is common Germanic: Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃 (hauhs), Old Norse hár, Old Frisian hāch, Old Saxon hōh and Old…

  4. mann

    800–899

    It is inherited from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann- (“person, man”). Kroonen sets up the Proto-Germanic noun as *mannan-, with the cognates Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌰 (manna), Old Norse…

  5. scir

    800–850

    1. The noun for an office or district is inherited from Proto-West Germanic *skīru (“office, district”). Wiktionary takes it to be probably related to the adjective Proto-Germanic *skīriz (“pure…

  6. tid

    800–899

    It is inherited from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *dih₂tís, a noun in *-tis made to the root *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Kroonen reconstructs…

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