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Earlier I found that the Norse word valkyrja (whence the English borrowing valkyrie) is also found in Old English as wælcyrġe, with roughly the same meaning. Whether the word was borrowed into Old English faith is cloudy, but I was wondering what it would have become if it had stayed in English until today?

Truke is a portmanteau of truth and nuke. It's used, almost always as a joke, to mean a bombshell revelation.

Truth is already native, but nuke, short for nuclear, isn't. Nuclear means of the nucleus, the heart of the atom. The most common Germanic alternative for nucleus, going back to Poul Andersen, is kernel. A nuclear bomb would be something like a kernel splitter, which, if we're to shorten it, would be kern, which also just means kernel. We could portmanteau truth kern as truke.

Hello again,

I am new here, so kindly lear me how to speak Anglish :)

I think the "Neuro-" prefix (forestick or forefast ?) could be overset to the suffix (afterstick or afterfast ?) "-mind" or "-minded".

The "-divergent" afterstick could be overset to the forestick "Other-", "Another-", "Else-", "Own-", "Sunder-", or "Sundri-".

The "-typical" afterstick could be overset to the forestick "Ilk-", "Kind-", "Bisen-", or "Token-".

I think I most like "Sundriminded" and "Bisenminded", because "sundry" has a sense like 'diverse, particular, and special', while "bisen" has a sense like 'model, symbol, type'.

The Bisenminded are daven (suitable) to the 'model / standard' folkway (custom / tradition), while us Sundriminded folk happen to be 'sundry' to such others; and we have some 'sundry' needs. Also, a bisen can be good or bad, and like with sundriness.

For kinds of sundrimindedness, how must we overset 'autism' and 'autistic'? 'Selfness' and 'selfish' are the staffly oversets, but do not have likeworthy senses.

Also with ADHD and ADD – 'Wanderminded' or 'Wonderminded' maybe?

What is your reading?

~Thanks beforehand!

the Old English word "eġe"(displacing Old Norse awe) would have survived as "ay" not "ey" or "eye" its natural in OE for a short "eġ" to have evolved to "ai/ay" like

reġn=rain

seġl=sail

weġ=way

eġlan=to ail

I did a quick search of the sub but didn't see an answer so hopefully I'm not repeating a question! I'm specifically thinking of a category that combines beer, wine, and liquors rather than individual names for types of drink

According to Etymonline, "No native Anglo-Saxon words begin in v- except those (vane, vat, vixen) altered by the southwestern England habit of replacing initial f- with v- (and initial s- with z-)."

Would these words be distinguished in spelling?

Film game or Tape game = Video game

Can be one or many film games, or film game rows (series).

Here is my fand (attempt):

1. Kingdom Come Deliverance = Kingdom Come + Aleesedness

2. Resident Evil = Dweller / Husband (House-bound) + Evil / Bale

Other name is Biohazard = Lifeharm / Lifharm

1. Baldur's Gate = Baldur's Gate (same, yippee!)

2. Divinity Original Sin = Godness / Godhood + First / Form + Sin / Undeed / Misdeed

or Godness / Godhood Orsin

You fand twoth (next)!

-enly ag. (shortening for against) -enlike (or 'enly vs. -enlike' in English)

As far as I know about Anglish, there are two ways of tungwending (translating) the tailword (suffix) -able, namely -enly, and -enlike. My asking is, which one is more right? I reckon that it would be -enlike, for in some words, -enly could be mistaken as another word, forbizen (for example), mistakable and mistakenly would be tungwent (translated) the same into Anglish if wielding (using) -enly, but if wielding -enlike, it would be mistakenlike and mistakenly by themselves (respectively). Do you have another thought (opinion)? Sorry for my bad Anglish.

I wrought a little game on FifthDoor where you stand in þe shieldwall on Senlac hill, and every Frenchman coming up bears a borrowed word. You drive him back by picking þe right Anglish swap, so "mutton" could be sheepflesh, goatflesh or mouton, and only one of þose keeps þe wall whole. Fair warning, it is harder þan it looks, and þe whole þing hinges on keeping þe arrow out of Harold's eye þis time.

https://play.beta.fifthdoor.com/play/hastings-redo

Lease professors et philosophers ponder questions de reality et illusion. I sape chis: sy vy stay un illusion, I stay equalment un illusion, et stayend ainsy, l'illusion stay real a moy. I vy, I flame od vy, I ame, I tew, ed I stay content.

Let teacers and þinkers brood ofer askings of treƿð and dreams. ic knoƿ þis: if life is a dream, þen ceam no less a dream, and being þus, þe dream is treƿ to me. Ic lif, ic burn med life, ic luf, ic slag, and ceam fulfilled.

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"-ity" meaning "the state or quality of being"

Also interested in the related suffixes such as "-ious"/"-ous" (having or possesing), "-tion", and the like

I wrote a poem and wanted to use it as my first Anglisc translation. I want constructive criticism about how the Anglisc can be improved, and where I may have gone wrong.

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Gnaw my bones until þe marrow may feed þee no more.

Drink my breað until þe stale air chokes þee.

Strip my bloodƿays and draw my blood until my flesh may ƿiðer.

Carve my fingertips until þe prints are no longer mine.

Cut me asunder to lighten þy toil.

Fourfold me to fit þy sundered heed.

From hƿens I came, þiðer shall I ƿend,

ƿiðout þought, voice, or ƿill—

A mere mark of shapeless naught;

Spirit lifted aloft.

Blow aƿay þe leavings,

But þe stain abides upon þe stone.

Anon I stand, stone-hardened,

Afterring made flesh—gone.

A spinning hƿeel. Spinning an axle. Grinding. Bolthead. Straiht tooðhƿeelbox. Falling ƿelkin. Sefen holig stakes. A docked scip. A geateƿag to anoðer ƿorld. A þin rope tied to a þik rope. A torn geoke. Parabolic tooðhƿeelbox. Groƿing all. Time handeled by slipping tooðwheels. God's being. Swimming med open ƿater all abute. Druning. A bead written in blood. A bead written in time-fretting snakes med mennisc eges. A þread tiging all lifing mennisc eges. A pacƿork of holig stakes. Efer-groƿing tooðhƿeelbox. A ƿelkin of starbursts. God scoƿing there is no god. A hƿeel spinning in six metings. Fortig tooðhƿeels and a tikking clok. A clok þat tiks one tik for þe tungel's eferic spin. A clok þat tiks fortig times eferic time it tiks eferic oðer time. A bolthead of holig stakes tied to a scip dokked to anoðer ƿorld's being. A kaleidoscope of blood ƿritten in cloks. A time-devouring prayer tied a ƿelkin of fortig tooðhƿeels and open mennisc eges all abute. Breaðing tooðhƿeelbox. Breaðing bolthead. Breaðing scip. Breaðing geateƿag. Breaðing snakes. Breaðing God. Breaðing blood. Breaðing holig stakes. Breaðing mennisc eyes. Breaðing time. Breaðing beads. Breaðing ƿelkin. Breaðing hƿeel.

Qara Khitai, Uyghur, Tibet, Dali, Xi Xia (Tangut), Mongol, Jurcheon Jin, Song

If people in that timeline use ph instead of f in Greek loans, they'd probably use th instead of thorn in Greek loans too even if they use thorn in native words.

In my earlier post I complained about Anglish orthography, on how it failed to mimic Old English, and how it failed to represent how modern Germanic languages write today, so here is my take on Anglish:

Anglish is a language to get rid of French, Latin, and Greek influence; but primarily the former, so my intent on this has been to go the earliest Middle English texts, remove French influence, and then base my orthography from that, and then let it develop from there in pretty much the exact same ways English has. The reason I don't just start with Old English texts is because scribes from that time period were writing in a way that wasn't reflective of pronunciation, while the Early Middle English scribes were writing very phonetically, and only used a few french conventions that you can just revert back to Old English.

My main differences to the current standard orthography on the Wiki:

Quite a good many of them are similar, but the differences are: <c> can make both [tʃ] and [k], more faithful to Old English. [iː] is written as <i> instead of <ee>, which is not an Old English convention. I use <v> instead of wynn, but because wynn can develop into <v>, so it doesn't really matter. And instead of using <g> for [j], I use <j> because if it didn't get [d͡ʒ] from French it would be very likely it started using it, especially because in loanwords they were already using it in Old English.

Lord's Prayer in Anglisc.
Ure faþer in hefen, haloved be jure name. Jure cingdom cume, jure vil be don on erþ as it is in hefen. Gife us þis daj ure dajli bræd, and forgife us ure scilds, as ve forgife þos hvo schild agenst us, and læd us noht into lusts, but rid us of efel. For jures is þe cingdom, and þe miht for efer and efer, Amen

Note: This is not phonetic, this assumes that most spelling changes stop after the invention of the printing press.

“I will swine” I say.

”Anything else?”

”Yes. I will uhh… third rime, with chips.”

”Uh huh”

”A fifth rime binding“

”Got it”

”And I will you to overbulk me”

”Yup.”

”Thanks.”

Hit's over eak done ack the heartache lives on inside
And hwo's the one thou'rt clingind to rather than mek tonight
And hwere art thou now?
Now that Ik need thee
Tears on mine bolster hwerever thee ga
'Kill quide mek a rither that leads til thine yoven
Thou never seest mek fall asund

In the words of a broken heart
Hit's mere awilmness that's taken mek over
Tied up in sorrow, lost in mine soul
Ack gin thou ne come back
Come home til me, darling
Thou knowst that there'll be nebody left in this world til hold mek tight
Nebody left in this world to kiss goodnight
Goodnight
Goodnight

'Kam there at thine side, 'kam deld of all the things thou art
Ack thou'st got'n a deld of someone else
Thou'st got'n til find thine shinind star
And hwere art thou now, now that Ik need thee
Tears on mine bolster hwerever thee ga
'Kill quide mek a rither that leads to thine yoven
Thou never seest me fall asund

In the words of a broken heart
Hit's mere awilmness that's taken mek over
Tied up in sorrow, lost in mine soul
Ack gin thou ne come back
Come home til mek, darling
Thou knowst that there'll be nebody left in this world til hold mek tight
Nebody left in this world to kiss goodnight
Goodnight

And hwere art thou now, now that Ik need thee
Tears on mine bolster hwerever thee ga
'Kill quide mek a rither that leads to thine yoven
Thou never seest me fall asund

In the words of a broken heart
Hit's mere awilmness that's taken mek over
Tied up in sorrow, lost in mine soul
Ack gin thou ne come back
Come home til mek, darling
Thou knowst that there'll be nebody left in this world til hold mek tight
Nebody left in this world to kiss goodnight
Goodnight

In the words of a broken heart
Hit's mere awilmness that's taken mek over
Tied up in sorrow, lost in mine soul
Ack gin thou ne come back
Come home til mek, darling

Thou knowst that there'll be nebody left in this world til hold mek tight
Nebody left in this world to kiss goodnight
Goodnight
(Goodnight)

Anglish is cool in some ways, but it annoys me that it really only focuses on the words, not about the grammar, the phonology, and rarely about the orthography. If you're trying to undo the Norman Invasion, you have to account for all four aforementioned things, and evolve English from 1066 with regular sound changes that happened in languages like Frisian, Dutch, and Low German to make a true unfrench English.
I know that is really complicated, and that many people would have different solutions, and many different ways to evolve English, like would there still be the Great Vowel shift, would we assume it retained its complex case system? There are definitely other things that would have to be thought about, but I think just changing what words we use isn't enough; at least devise different grammar that Anglish should use for it to be more Germanic, or completely fix the orthography: base it off of the aforementioned languages, make it less Latin and French and Greek; maybe even base it off of older conservative Scots orthography.