English words first recorded in the 14th century

It is inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Old Northern French carre, from Vulgar Latin *carra, related to Latin carrum or carrus (“two-wheeled wagon, Celtic war chariot”) (plural…

1. The word for a dog house is inherited from Middle English kenel, probably borrowed from Anglo-Norman *kenil, a northern form corresponding to Old French chenil, which is recorded in French only…

It is inherited from Middle English proctour, also proketour and procutour, a contraction of procuratour with the loss of its middle syllables, which is borrowed from Old French procuratour and…

It is inherited from Middle English quishin, also cushin and many other spellings, borrowed from Anglo-Norman quissyn and Old French coissin, also cuissin and cussin, now French coussin. The OED…

It is inherited from Middle English acordance, acordaunce, borrowed from Old French acordance (“agreement, reconciliation, harmony”), from acorder, to bring to agreement (see accord).

It is inherited from Middle English affinite, also affenite, borrowed from Old French afinité, also affinité and Anglo-Norman afineté, and partly directly borrowed from Latin affīnitās…

It is inherited from Middle English affliccioun, also afflixion, borrowed from Anglo-Norman afflicion, also afflicciun, and directly borrowed from Late Latin afflīctiō. In Old French the word is…

It is inherited from Middle English appetit, borrowed from Anglo-Norman appetit (Old French apetit), from Latin appetītus (“desire, longing”), from the past participle of appetō (“to long for…

It is inherited from Middle English arguen, borrowed from Old French arguer (“to maintain an opinion; accuse”), from Latin argūtō “to prattle”, a frequentative of arguō “to make clear, prove…

It is inherited from Middle English aturne, later atournei, borrowed from Anglo-Norman aturné, from Old French atorné “(one) appointed”, the past participle of atorner (“to decree, assign…

It is inherited from Middle English bapteme, later baptisme, borrowed from Old French baptesme, also batesme, which the Anglo-Norman Dictionary records from 1120–40. The French word is a…

It is a Middle English fusion of the Old English phrases (him) be healfe “by (his) side” and on (his) healfe “on (his) side”. It is formed from Middle English be + half (“side”), half being from Old…

It is inherited from Middle English blinken, which the OED treats as an occasional variant of the usual blenken, found especially in Robert Mannyng of Brunne; blenken is in turn a variant of blench…

It is inherited from Middle English bondage, borrowed from Anglo-Norman bondage (“villeinage, tenure by villein service”), and in part borrowed from Medieval Latin bondagium, its Anglo-Latin form…

1. The word for the fur is inherited from Middle English bugee, also bogey and bouge, borrowed from Anglo-Norman bogee, a fur of lambskin recorded in Anglo-Norman from 1298. Its further origin is…

It is inherited from Middle English certeinte, borrowed from Anglo-Norman certeinté, the Anglo-Norman form of Old French certaineté, which goes back to Vulgar Latin *certānitās (compare Old Spanish…

It is inherited from Middle English choken, a variant of earlier cheken, a shortened form of acheken, also achoken, inherited from Old English ācēocian (“to choke, suffocate”), recorded once, in the…

It is inherited from Middle English code, borrowed from Old French code (“system of laws, law-book”), from Latin cōdex (“a book; a code of laws”), a later spelling of caudex (“tree trunk; a block…

1. The verb is inherited from Middle English communen, also comunen and comonen, borrowed from Old French comuner (“to make common, share”), in Anglo-Norman also comunier, from comun (“common”)…

It is inherited from Middle English counte, borrowed from Anglo-Norman counté (Old French conté, modern comté), from Medieval Latin comitātus (“domain of a count”), from Late Latin comitātus…

It is inherited from Middle English covert, borrowed from Old French covert (“covered; hidden, obscure”), later couvert, the past participle of covrir (“to cover”), from Latin cooperiō (“to cover…

It is inherited from Middle English decre, borrowed from Old French decré, a variant of decret, from Latin dēcrētum (“decision, ordinance”), the neuter of dēcrētus, past participle of dēcernō (“to…

It is inherited from Middle English doctour, borrowed from Old French doctour, from Medieval Latin doctor (“religious teacher, adviser, scholar”), in classical Latin “teacher”, an agent noun from…

It is inherited from Middle English erren, borrowed from Old French errer (“to go astray, lose one's way; to make a mistake”), from Latin errō (“to wander, go astray; to be mistaken”). The…

It is inherited from Middle English examinen, borrowed from Old French examiner (“to test, try”), from Latin exāmināre (“to weigh accurately, test”), from examen (“tongue of a balance; a means of…

It is inherited from Middle English flamme, flaume, flambe, borrowed from Anglo-Norman flaume (“a flame”), flaumbe, Old French flame, flambe, from Latin flammula (“small flame”), diminutive of…

It is inherited from Middle English florishen, also florisen, borrowed from Old French floriss-, the lengthened stem of florir (“to blossom, flower; to prosper”) (modern fleurir), from Vulgar Latin…

It is formed from English flourish + -ing, first as the Middle English verbal noun florishing. The verb is from Middle English florishen, from Old French floriss-, the stem of florir (“to blossom…

1. It is inherited from Middle English foundour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman fundur and Old French fondeor, from Latin fundātor, an agent noun from fundō “to lay a foundation”, the source of found…

It is inherited from Middle English gerlond, also garland, borrowed from Old French garlande, also gerlande and gallande. The MED suggests that the second syllable of some Middle English forms was…

It is inherited from Middle English gessen (“to suppose, think”), probably borrowed from a Scandinavian source, such as Middle Danish gitse or Old Swedish gissa, or from or influenced by Middle…

It is inherited from Middle English harneis, also herneis and harnais, borrowed from Old French harneis, also harnois and herneis, military equipment, baggage, gear (now French harnais). The…

It is inherited from Middle English hidous, also hydus, borrowed from Anglo-Norman hidous, corresponding to Old French hidos or hideus, earlier (11th century) hisdos, from hisde (“horror, fear”)…

It is inherited from Middle English enditement, also inditement, borrowed from Anglo-Norman enditement, also endictement, from enditer (“to accuse, indict”), the source of indict, with the suffix…

It is inherited from Middle English inspiracioun, borrowed from Old French inspiracion (“inhaling, breathing in; inspiration”), from Late Latin īnspīrātiō, from īnspīrō (“to blow into, breathe upon…

It is inherited from Middle English interen, enteren, borrowed from Old French enterrer (“to bury”), from Medieval Latin interrare, to put in the earth, from in (“in”) and terra (“earth”) (see…

It is inherited from Middle English enterlude, borrowed from Medieval Latin interlūdium, formed from inter- (“between”) and lūdus (“play”), the source of ludicrous. The OED suggests that the word…

It is inherited from Middle English linage, borrowed from Old French lignage (“descent, extraction, race”), also linage, from Vulgar Latin *līneāticum, formed from Latin līnea (“line, string; line…

It is a compound, from English no + body: Middle English no “not any” and bodi “person”.

It is inherited from Middle English notarie, also notarye, borrowed from Anglo-Norman notarie, also notaire, and Middle French notaire (“scribe, secretary”), and directly borrowed from Latin…

It is inherited from Middle English parcelle, later parcel, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parcele and Old French parcelle (“small piece, part”) (now French parcelle), from Medieval Latin particella…

It is inherited from Middle English paste, borrowed from Old French paste (“dough, pastry”) (modern French pâte) and directly Late Latin pasta (“pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά…

Its origin is uncertain. It appears in Medieval Latin pie, meat or fish in pastry, about 1303, perhaps related to Medieval Latin pia, pastry. It is probably the same word as Middle English pie…

It is inherited from Middle English plesen, borrowed from Old French plaisir (“to please, give pleasure to, satisfy”), plesir (modern French plaire), from Latin placeō (“to be acceptable, be liked…

1. The adjective is inherited from Middle English present, borrowed from Old French present (“evident, at hand”) (modern présent), and directly from Latin praesēns (“present, at hand; immediate…

It is inherited from Middle English proprete, also properte, borrowed from Anglo-Norman properté, propretee, variants of Old French proprieté, probably reshaped after propre (“one's own”). The…

It is inherited from Middle English queste, borrowed from Old French queste (“search, chase, inquiry”) and directly questa (“search, inquiry”), from Vulgar Latin *quaesta, from Latin quaesita, the…

It is inherited from Middle English rejoisen, also rejoicen and rejoishen, borrowed from Old French rejoir, also resjoir, through its lengthened present stem rejoiss-. The French verb, meaning to…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin requiem (“mass for the dead”), and partly borrowed from Anglo-Norman requiem, recorded in Anglo-Norman from the 13th century. The Latin noun is the accusative of…

It is borrowed from Old French revelation, or directly from Late Latin revēlātiō, from revēlō, to unveil, lay bare (see reveal).

The adjective is Middle English revers, borrowed from Old French revers (“reverse, opposite”) and directly borrowed from Latin reversus, the past participle of revertō (“to turn back”) (see revert)…

It is inherited from Middle English sexteyn, also sekesteyn, secresteyn and sexten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman segerstain, also segrestein and secrestein, and Middle French secretain, from Medieval…

It is inherited from Middle English shreued, also schrewed and shrewde, probably formed from Middle English shreue (“wicked person”) + -ed, like crabbed, dogged and wicked. Some uses may instead be…

It is a compound of some and body, “person”, written separately in Middle English, sum body, and joined from the 16th century.

It is inherited from Middle English speker, an agent noun formed from speak and -er. Old Frisian spreker and German Sprecher are similar formations.

It is inherited from Middle English sprit, also sprite, spret and spreit, borrowed from Anglo-Norman esprite and esprit, variants of Old French espirit and esperit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus…

It is inherited from Middle English stresse (“hardship, coercion”), partly a shortening of destresse, the ancestor of distress, and partly borrowed from Old French estrece (“narrowness…

It is inherited from Middle English stomblen, also stumblen, probably borrowed from Old Norse *stumla, an unrecorded Old Norse verb. It corresponds to dialectal Norwegian stumla (“to grope and…

It is inherited from Middle English supposen, borrowed from Old French supposer (“to assume”) (13th century), probably a replacement, under the influence of poser “to put, place”, of *suppondre…

It is inherited from Middle English swagge (“a bag, sack”), perhaps of Scandinavian origin: the MED and the OED compare the Norwegian dialect word svagg (“a big strong person”). Most later senses…