Talk:Changes to Old English vocabulary

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 * I will be continuing to work on this page and will be adding dates of entry for all words as soon as possible.--Hraefen Talk 01:07, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Needs more work
This page needs more work, particularly on the meanings and origin of Old English words. For instance, I think "(wild)hænn" and "(wor)hana" would likely mean "hen" and "rooster", but there are a lot of words I'm unsure of. 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (&lt; \) (2 /) /)/ * 15:00, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Andwurde verb or noun?
Isn't andwurde/andwyrne the noun form, and not the verb form, as it appears now? If someone knows his/her styff, I think it could be clarified and simplified. (As for now, the German and Dutch cognates are nouns, the verbs are antworten and antwoorden.) 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (&lt; \) (2 /) /)/ * (talk) 22:52, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Removed warfare section
I saw no reason for wīg to have its own section, so I moved it into Miscellaneous and removed the warfare section. Delduþling ♦talk 02:05, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Wæpen
Doesn't "wæpen" primarily mean "weapon", with the usage for "penis" only emerging secondarily? Other Germanic cognates such as German "Waffen", Swedish "vapen" and Danish "våben" clearly seems to indicate that the sense "weapon" was the original. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 14:01, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Overlinking
This page may suffer from WP:OVERLINK. There are many wikilinks repeated on the same words and there are many words wikilinked that really don't need to be. I'll come back to work on it but anyone else can help out if they feel like it. AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 02:31, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Buteo buteo buteo
Hi,

wrt / ... "mūshāfoc: 'buzzard', literally 'mouse hawk'. It is not clear which bird of prey this word referred to. The OED lists multiple meanings for 'mouse hawk', (Short-eared Owl, Hen Harrier and Rough-legged Buzzard), but 'mouse hawk' is an alternate name, not the prevailing name. The Middle English word busard first entered the language in around 1300 and it comes ultimately from Latin būtēo./..."

... ist it possible that one candidate may be the common buzard, Buteo buteo, seeing as how in modern NO this is called a "musvaak" (the "aa" being the modern "å", maing the pronounciation of "-våk" apprx. "-warlk" 'cept for the "w", which is still a "ve..."?

Following days of ..... umh, quiet (?)

T83.109.182.93 (talk) 02:05, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

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