English words first recorded in the 10th century

It is inherited from Middle English unche, inch, inherited from Old English ynċe, an early borrowing from Latin uncia (“a twelfth part”), from ūnus “one”, from Proto-Indo-European *oi-no- (“one…

It is inherited from Old English inn (“lodging, dwelling, house”), probably from the adverb inne, inside, within (see in), so that an inn is a place one stays in. It is cognate with Old Norse inni…

It is inherited from Middle English inner, inre, inherited from Old English innera, inra, the comparative of inne “inside”, from in. Old High German innaro (German innere) and Old Norse innri are…

It is Middle English, from Old English hit self, from hit (“it”) and self, that is, it and self. The SOED notes that self was originally an adjective, but long interpreted as a noun, and Etymonline…

It is inherited from Middle English kepen, inherited from Old English cēpan (“to seize, hold; to observe, heed; to seek”), from Proto-Germanic *kōpijaną, which is of uncertain origin. It is possibly…

It is inherited from Middle English kirnel, also curnel and kernel, inherited from Old English cyrnel (“seed, kernel, pip”), a diminutive of corn (“seed, grain”), the source of corn. The OED and…

It is inherited from Middle English kingdom, inherited from Old English cyningdōm (“kingship”), from cyning “king” and -dōm, the suffix -dom. It is cognate with Old Saxon kuningdōm, Middle Dutch…

It is inherited from Middle English kuchene, kichene, inherited from Old English cyċene, which with Middle Dutch cökene, Old High German chuhhina, German Küche and Danish kjøkken goes back to…

It is inherited from Middle English knitten, also knutten and knetten, inherited from Old English cnyttan (“to tie with a knot, bind, fasten”), from Proto-Germanic *knuttjan, a verb formed from the…

It is inherited from Middle English knoken, inherited from Old English cnocian (West Saxon cnucian), probably imitative of the sound, like Middle High German knochen “to press” and Old Norse knoka…

1. The interlaced cord is inherited from Middle English knotte, also knot, inherited from Old English cnotta (“knot, fastening; a knotty point”), from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from…

It is from English land + lord.

It is inherited from Middle English lattre, lator, inherited from Old English lætra (“slower”), the comparative of læt, the source of late. It corresponds to Old Frisian letora, Middle High German…

It is inherited from Middle English lawe, inherited from Old English lagu (plural laga), borrowed from Old Norse *lagu, an early plural of lag (“layer, measure; something laid down or fixed”). It…

It is inherited from Middle English lippe, inherited from Old English lippa (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepjōn, source also of Old Frisian lippa, Middle Dutch lippe (Dutch lip), Old High German…

It is inherited from Middle English livelode, also liflode, inherited from Old English līflād (“course of life, way of life”), formed from līf (“life”) and lād (“course, way; maintenance, support”)…

It is inherited from Middle English liflich, inherited from Old English līflīc (“living, existing; literally life-like”), from līf (“life”) and -līc (see life and -ly). Compare Old High German…

It is inherited from Old English lā (“an exclamation of surprise, grief or joy”), fused with Middle English lo, probably short for lok, look!, the imperative of loken (see look). Old English lā is…

It is inherited from Middle English lopster, also lopister and later lobstere, inherited from Old English loppestre, also lopystre and lopustre, borrowed from Latin locusta (“lobster or similar…

It is inherited from Middle English loft, also lofte, inherited from Old English loft (“air, sky”), borrowed from Old Norse lopt (“air, sky, upper room”), in which “-pt-” was pronounced “-ft-”. The…

It is Middle English lunge, inherited from Old English lungen (plural), from Proto-Germanic *lunganjo-, source also of Old Norse lunga, Dutch long and German Lunge, literally the light organ, from…

It is inherited from Middle English mersh-malwe, inherited from Old English merscmealwe, a compound from Old English mersc (“marsh”) + mealwe (“mallow”), that is, the mallow that grows in marshes…

It is inherited from Middle English mash-, first in compounds such as masfat and masshfat (“mash vat”), inherited from Old English māsc, also māx-, found mainly in compounds such as māxwyrt…

It is inherited from Middle English maister, inherited from Old English mæġester (“a man with authority, a teacher”), an early borrowing from Latin, fused in Middle English with Old French maistre…

It is inherited from Middle English middai, also middei, inherited from Old English middæg, a compound from Old English midd (“middle”) + dæg (“day”), that is mid and day. Etymonline takes it as a…

1. The arachnid is inherited from Middle English mite, also myte, inherited from Old English mīte, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *mītā, from Proto-Germanic *mītǭ (“biting insect”). It is…

1. The skin spot is inherited from Middle English mole, also mool, inherited from Old English māl (“spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“spot, mark”), the source also of Old High…

It is inherited from Middle English morn, also morwen, morgen and in the West Midlands marȝen, inherited from Old English morgen (“morning, forenoon, sunrise”), inflected morgne and morne, with the…

It is inherited from Middle English nemel, later nymyl and nymbyll, inherited from Old English nǣmel (“quick to grasp, quick at taking”), which is from Old English niman (“to take”), the source of…

It is a fusion of late Old English organe (“musical instrument”) and Old French orgene, organe, both from Latin organa, the plural of organum, a musical instrument, from Greek ὄργανον (órganon…

It is inherited from Middle English outlawe, also utlage, inherited from Old English ūtlaga (“an outlaw”), borrowed from Old Norse útlagi (“an outlaw”), a noun from útlagr (“outlawed, banished”)…

It is inherited from Middle English overal, from the Old English phrase ofer eall (“everywhere”), from Old English ofer + eall, the sources of over and all.

It is inherited from Middle English over bord, inherited from Old English ofer bord, a phrase made up of ofer (“over”) and bord (“side of a ship”), the same word as in starboard. Weekley notes that…

It is inherited from Middle English oversen, inherited from Old English ofersēon (“to look down upon, survey, observe; to overlook, neglect”), formed from Old English ofer (“over”) + sēon (“to…

The word was first taken into Old English, as pandher, borrowed from Latin panthēra (“leopard, large spotted cat”). It was borrowed again in Middle English as pantere, panter, from Old French…

It is inherited from Middle English paradis, borrowed from Old French paradis (“paradise, garden of Eden”), from Late Latin paradisus (“a park; the garden of Eden”), from Greek παράδεισος…

It is inherited from Middle English percely, also persely, inherited from Old English petersilie, borrowed from Medieval Latin petrosilium, blended with Middle English percil, borrowed from Old…

The noun is inherited from Middle English part, borrowed from Old French part (“share, portion; side”), from Latin pars (“part, piece, share”) (accusative partem), from Proto-Indo-European *perə-…

It is inherited from Middle English pere, inherited from Old English pere, also peru, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *peru, a word common to West Germanic, from Late Latin pera, also pira, an…

It is inherited from Middle English pibel, also puble, pobbel and pibbil, inherited from Old English papolstān (“pebblestone”), also popelstān, whose first element papol- is found only in compounds…

It is inherited from Middle English peper, from Old English pipor, an early West Germanic borrowing (compare Dutch peper, German Pfeffer) of Latin piper (“pepper”), from Greek πέπερι (péperi)…

1. The plant is inherited from Middle English pervinkle, a diminutive of pervinke, also parvink, inherited from Old English perwince, borrowed from Late Latin pervinca, for earlier vincapervinca, of…

1. It is Old English borrowed from Latin pīn- (“pine tree”), in compounds such as pīntrēow, coalescing in Middle English with Old French pin, also from Latin pīnus. Latin pīnus is cognate with…

It is inherited from Old English pīpe (“musical pipe; tube”), an early West Germanic borrowing, like Old Frisian pīpe, Old High German pfīfa and Dutch pijp, of Vulgar Latin *pīpa (“pipe”), a…

It is inherited from Middle English plaster, also plastre, inherited from Old English plaster (“medicinal plaster”), probably borrowed from Medieval Latin plastrum, a shortening of Latin emplastrum…

It is inherited from Middle English pleiere, inherited from Old English plegere (“one who takes part in pastimes”), an agent noun from plegan (“to play”), the source of play, with the suffix -er.

It is inherited from Middle English plukken, also ploken and plucken, inherited from Old English pluccian, also ploccian, to pluck, pull away, tear, inherited from Proto-Germanic *plukkōną, which…

1. The upright pole is inherited from Middle English post, inherited from Old English post (“pillar, doorpost”), borrowed from Latin postis (“doorpost, later beam, rod”), probably a very early…

It is inherited from Middle English prety (also praty), inherited from Old English prættig (“cunning, crafty, skilful”), from prætt (“a trick, wile”) and the suffix that became -y, from…

The noun is inherited from Middle English prikke, also prik, inherited from Old English prica, also pricca and price, a point, dot or small mark, from Proto-Germanic *prikô. The verb is priken…

It is inherited from Middle English pride, prude, prute, inherited from Old English prȳde, prȳte, formed from prūd “proud”, the source of proud. Hoad explains prȳde as a later form of prȳte…

It is inherited from Middle English proud, inherited from Old English prūd and prūt, probably borrowed from Old French prud (“brave, valiant”), the oblique case of prouz (modern French preux), from…

It is inherited from Middle English puffen, inherited from Old English pyffan (“to breathe out, blow with the mouth”), probably imitative of the sound of breath blown out through the lips. The noun…

It is inherited from Middle English pullen, inherited from Old English pullian (“to pluck off, draw out”), a word of unknown or uncertain origin, perhaps related to Low German pūlen “to remove the…

1. The boat is inherited from Old English punt, borrowed from Latin pontō (“flat-bottomed boat, ferry, punt”), a kind of Gaulish transport boat in Caesar and also a floating bridge, from pōns…

It is inherited from Middle English quikli, inherited from Old English cwiclīce (“in a living manner, vigorously”), formed from English quick + -ly. The OED compares Old Norse kvikliga (“in a brisk…

It is inherited from Middle English reinbowe, inherited from Old English regnboga (“rainbow”), rēnboga, a compound of rain and bow, common to Germanic: Old Norse regnbogi, Dutch regenboog, German…

It is Middle English rat, ratte, inherited from Old English ræt (attested once), reinforced in Middle English by Old French rat. Similar words are found in Celtic (Gaelic radan), Romance (Medieval…

It is inherited from Middle English rau, inherited from Old English hrēaw (“uncooked”), from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, also the source of Old Saxon hrāo, Dutch rauw, German roh and Old Norse hrár. It…

1. The puzzle is inherited from Middle English redels, inherited from Old English rǣdels (“opinion, counsel, conjecture, riddle”), formed with the noun suffix -els from rǣdan (“to advise, interpret…