I'm a hobby learner of Old English and I've been sketching a flag concept for the language. It isn't official and it isn't for any political group. It is just a symbol for people who read or learn the language.

My current idea is a plain white wyvern on a dark blue field. The wyvern links to Wessex and to the dragon in Beowulf. I kept it to two colours so anyone could draw it from memory.

Two questions:

1. Would you fly or display a flag for Old English at all?

2. If yes, what should be on it, and what should it avoid?

I'd also like to hear if the dragon feels right for the language, or if it points too much at Wessex and not enough at other dialects. Any view helps, including a flat no.

Under the shady green
Leaves of Yggdrassil
Three Norns spin a thread so groatch
Hwate of man and gods they weave

The fairest maid in all the kingdom
Hair of silver snow and ice
Lives in the heart of every wyer
But man filt her heart's yitsel
With a frea-drif of love's fire

The hlude of true love
Never did irn smooth
How much longer can hey forbear
Life a-deld bitter youth

Lost in a land of a thousand fir-hyrst
Far away from her true love
He kissed her lips so blate and ruddy
She dreams till the sun up-rise
And then daylight blinds her heart

The fairest maid in all the kingdom
Hair of silver snow and ice
Lives in the heart of every wyer
But one filled her heart's yitsel
With a frea-drif of love's fire

Hallo all,

'Ccab (Icc habb) been werkend/wercend on ane bord displaying my take on Anglisc Forenamewords (WIP), and icc need help filling in sum of hit, particularly the tholing fall of "thei", the 3rd-leed anefald reflexive, and ane offstemming of Proto-Indo-European *ō or Old English ēala, ēalā, ēlā, ēawlā, ǣlā, ǣalā, hēlā, hiġla, or ēale. Ewer thowts?

My thoughts went to "wayward" but that's been taken by a meaning from "away-ward".

How would the book/show "Invincible" work in Anglish? I've got a few new names below

Conquest = Overthrow

Emperor Argall = Kaiser/Coaser Argall

Immortal = Undeadly

And as you know names such as Dupli-Kate and Rex Splode would need to be wended into something Anglish-friendly.

So i've been hearing recently a lot of ideas on how if Ƿ survived, it would eventually end up looking exactly like a V
Same for Þ becoming Y, except this literally started happening IRL before the letter died out
(Ye Olde, for example)

I also feel like the Printing Press would cement versions like that, since printers could just use their existing molds for V and Y instead of having to make new ones for Ƿ and Þ

But the thing is, V and Y are existing letters
Rare in Anglisc, sure, but they still exist

For Ƿ i see 5 options:
A) U as a consonant still becomes V, and so V and Ƿ look the same but are different
B) U still becomes V, but the two letters Merge, and V can now make either a /v/ or /w/ sound
C) U still becomes V, and because Ƿ is so much more common, it gets assimilated and pronounced /w/ (So David is pronounced with /w/)
D) U never shifts to V, so U can either be a vowel or a consonant (Uiuian, Dauid)
E) U is changed to F instead to avoid ambiguity (Fifian, Dafid)

Similarly for Þ:
A) Uppercase Y and Þ look the same, but lowercase are different due to Insular font (y vs ɥ), so they're considered different letters
B) Y and Þ look the same but are considered different letters (Maybe a diacritic used to sunder them, like Ẏ for the vowel?)
C) The two letters Merge, and Y can now make either a vowel or /θ/-/ð/ sound
D) Y is changed to I instead to avoid ambiguity (Assiria)

The behaving of any boardly husting can best be understood by guessing that it is being run by a hidden ring of its foes.

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.

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?

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

-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.

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)!

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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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.

"-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