English words first recorded in the 8th century

It is inherited from Middle English midwei, also middewai, inherited from Old English midweg (“midway”), formed from Old English midd + weg, the ancestors of mid and way. Compare Middle Dutch…

It is inherited from Middle English mile, inherited from Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *milja, also the source of Middle Dutch mīle, Dutch mijl, Old High German mīla and German Meile…

1. The herb is inherited from Middle English minte, inherited from Old English minte, from Proto-West Germanic *minta, borrowed from Latin menta, also mentha, from Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē)…

1. The word for a stack of hay is inherited from Middle English moue, also mowe, inherited from Old English mūga, also mūha and mūwa, from Proto-West Germanic *mūgō and Proto-Germanic *mūgô. It is…

It is inherited from Middle English on, inherited from Old English on, originally an unstressed variant of an (“in, on, into”), which Barnhart finds about 700. The OED notes that the older form…

1. The tool is inherited from Middle English rake, inherited from Old English raca, also racu and earlier ræce, from Proto-Germanic *rak- (“gather, heap up”). It is cognate with Middle Dutch rāke…

It is inherited from Middle English ribbe, also rib, inherited from Old English ribb, from Proto-Germanic *ribją, which Kroonen reconstructs as *rebja-. It is cognate with Old Frisian ribb, Dutch…

It is inherited from Middle English sewen, also seuen and sowen, inherited from Old English siwian, earlier seowian, also siwan, from Proto-Germanic *siwjaną. It is cognate with Old Frisian sīa, Old…

It is inherited from Middle English shaven, inherited from Old English sceafan (“to scrape, pare away”), a strong verb (past tense scōf, past participle scafen) from Proto-Germanic *skabaną. It is…

It is inherited from Middle English schinen, inherited from Old English scīnan (“to shed light, be radiant”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną, source also of Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Old Norse…

It is inherited from Middle English shire, also schire, inherited from Old English sċīr (“official charge, administrative office; district”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *skīru (“district…

It is inherited from Middle English schovele, inherited from Old English scofl (“shovel”), inherited from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, related to scūfan (“to push, thrust”), the source of shove. Barnhart…

It is inherited from Middle English side, inherited from Old English sīde (“flank of a person; long part of a thing”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdō. Its cognates are Old Frisian side, Old Saxon sīda…

It is inherited from Middle English sive, inherited from Old English sife, from Proto-West Germanic *sibi (“sieve”), and its oldest spelling is sibi, of the 8th century. It is cognate with Middle…

1. The word for a muddy place is inherited from Middle English slogh, also slough and slo, inherited from Old English slōh (“soft, muddy ground; a hollow full of mire”), also slōg and slō. Its…

It is inherited from Middle English smal, inherited from Old English smæl (“slender, narrow, small”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz. Its cognates are Old Frisian smel (“narrow”), Old Saxon smal, Dutch…

1. The fish is inherited from Middle English smelt, also smelte, inherited from Old English smelt, also smylt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaz. Medieval writers in England latinised it as Medieval…

It is inherited from Middle English snail, also snaile and snele, inherited from Old English snægl, also snegel and snægel, inherited from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz. Its Germanic relatives include…

1. The short stocking is inherited from Middle English sok, also socke and sokke, inherited from Old English socc (“a light shoe, slipper”), an early borrowed from Latin soccus (“a light low-heeled…

1. The female pig is inherited from Middle English sowe, earlier suwe, inherited from Old English sugu and the related sū, which gradually fell together. Sugu is from Proto-Germanic *sugō, and is…

1. The digging tool is inherited from Middle English spade, inherited from Old English spadu, also spædu and spada, from Proto-Germanic *spadô, a word of the Low German area. It is cognate with Old…

1. The weapon is inherited from Middle English spere, inherited from Old English spere (“spear, lance, javelin”), inherited from Proto-Germanic *speru. Etymonline writes the Proto-Germanic form as…

It is inherited from Middle English speche, inherited from Old English spǣc (“act or manner of speaking; utterance; statement; language”), spēc, a variant of earlier sprǣc, related to sprecan (“to…

It is inherited from Middle English spede, inherited from Old English spēd (“success, prosperity, riches; luck; advancement”), from Proto-Germanic *spōdiz, the source also of Old Saxon spōd…

It is inherited from Middle English spinnen, inherited from Old English spinnan (“to draw out and twist fibres into thread”), from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną, also the source of Old Norse spinna…

It is inherited from Middle English spure, also spore, inherited from Old English spura, also spora, inherited from Proto-Germanic *spurô. It is cognate with Old Saxon sporo, Middle Dutch spore and…

It is inherited from Middle English staf, inherited from Old English stæf (“stick, staff; letter”), from Proto-Germanic *stabaz, the source also of Old Saxon and Dutch staf, Old Norse stafr, Old…

It is inherited from Middle English stelen, inherited from Old English stelan (“to commit theft”), from Proto-Germanic *stelanan, the source also of Dutch stelen, German stehlen and Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽…

1. The young ox is inherited from Middle English stere, inherited from Old English stēor (“young ox, bullock”), from Proto-Germanic *steuraz. Its cognates are Old Saxon stior, Middle Low German…

It is inherited from Middle English stench, inherited from Old English stenc (“a smell, odour, scent”), also stync, inherited from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz, from an ablaut variant of the Germanic…

It is inherited from Middle English stinken, inherited from Old English stincan (“to emit a smell (of any kind)”), a strong verb with the past tense “stanc” and the past participle “stuncen”. It is…

1. The verb to bend forward is inherited from Middle English stoupen, early stupen, inherited from Old English stūpian (“to stoop, bend the back”), from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną, the source also of…

1. The noun for a mass of bees is inherited from Middle English swarm, also swarme, inherited from Old English swearm (“swarm of bees; multitude”), from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz. It is cognate with…

It is inherited from Middle English taile, inherited from Old English tægl, tægel “posterior extremity”, from Proto-Germanic *taglaz, which also gave Old High German zagal “tail”, Old Norse tagl…

It is inherited from Middle English tame, also tom, inherited from Old English tam, also tom (“domesticated, docile”), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz, the source also of Old Norse tamr, Old Saxon tam…

It is inherited from Middle English taper, also tapre, inherited from Old English tapor, also tapur and taper, a candle or the wick of a lamp, a word not found in the related Germanic languages…

It is inherited from Middle English ther, also thar, thare, inherited from Old English þǣr, also þēr, from Proto-Germanic *þar, formed from the demonstrative base *þa- of that, the and then and a…

It is inherited from Middle English thret, threte, Northern thrat, inherited from Old English þrēat (“crowd, troop; oppression, coercion, menace”), related to Old English þrēotan “to trouble…

It is inherited from Middle English teie, tie, inherited from Old English tēag (“cord, band, thong, fetter”), from Proto-Germanic *taugō, also the source of Old Norse taug “rope”, from…

1. The preposition is inherited from Middle English til, inherited from Old English til (“to”) in Northumbrian Old English, reinforced by Old Norse til (“to, until”), from Proto-Germanic *tilą…

It is inherited from Middle English toth, inherited from Old English tōþ (“tooth”) (plural tēþ), from Proto-Germanic *tanþ-, source also of Dutch tand, Old Norse tǫnn, German Zahn and Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌿𐍃…

It is inherited from Middle English tuken, also touken and tukken, inherited from Old English tūcian (“to ill-treat, punish, torment”), later influenced by Middle Low German tucken (“to pull…

It was first borrowed as inherited from Old English tunece, borrowed from Latin tunica; the modern word is probably a later borrowing from Anglo-Norman tunike and Middle French tunique, together…

It is inherited from Middle English twinklen, inherited from Old English twinclian (“to twinkle, wink”), a frequentative of an unrecorded *twincan (“to wink, blink”), with the suffix -le. That verb…

It is inherited from Old English warnung, war(e)nung, the verbal noun of warnian, the source of warn, formed with -ung, the source of -ing.

It is inherited from Middle English wei, inherited from Old English weg (“road, path, course of travel”), in Mercian wæg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz (“course of travel, way”), a noun derived from…

It is inherited from Middle English wefte, inherited from Old English weft, also wefta, formed from the stem of wefan (“to weave”) with a suffix -t; Hoad and the OED reconstruct Germanic types with…

It is inherited from Middle English whanne, later when, inherited from Old English hwænne, also hwenne and hwonne, from Proto-Germanic *hwan (“at what time, when”). It is cognate with Old Saxon…

It is inherited from Middle English whei, also wei and wheie, inherited from Old English hwǣġ, also hweġ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaja-. Its cognates are Middle Dutch wey, Dutch wei, West Frisian waei…

It is inherited from Middle English winken, inherited from Old English wincian (“to close the eyes; to wink, make a sign”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *winkōn (“to close one's eyes”). It is…

1. The weaving word woof (weft) is inherited from Middle English oof, with an added w-, inherited from Old English ōwef, also āwef, formed from Old English ō- (“on”) + wef (“web”), from wefan (“to…

It is inherited from Middle English wrenne, inherited from Old English wrenna, also wrænna, and earlier, with the metathesis of the r, werna, wærna. It is a Germanic word of uncertain origin…