As I lay myself to sleep
I bid the Lord my soul to keep
And should I die before I wake
I bid the Lord my soul to nim
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Side note, take is of viking origin so it is technically germanic, but also it is a loan word. If one wishes, they could write “I bid the Lord my soul to take” and it’d still be germanic.
Pray is french (prier cognate), bid is germanic
I took nim from old english niman (german cognate is nehmen)
Just found this word and think it sounds very cool. Apparently a derivative of áglác. I don’t really understand how c is palatalised, though, as it’s before an a.
From looking over the many "posts" in this nook of Reddit, I think there are a few unalike ways of thinking about Anglish, which I have listed below. I bid you all forgive me if this ground has already been trodden by earlier Redditers.
The kinds of Anglish seem to be as follows:
Low Anglish
For the folks who write in Low Anglish, the goal of Anglish is to make a kind of English that is taken almost fully from Old English roots, BUT that also can be understood by speakers of today's English. I myself am wielding Low Anglish right here.
High Anglish
For the folks who write in High Anglish, the goal of Anglish is to make a kind of English that is taken fully from Old English roots, heedless of whether today's English-speakers can understand it. The Anglish Wordbook (holding words like "forebisen," "outhwit," and "wonly") gives a taste of High Anglish.
What do you folks think about these two kinds of Anglish? Are there more than the ones I listed here?
while i know most of us accept scandyisms since our languages are close and they're not french, i still like to consider what such words would anglicise to.
mainly it's common patterns like no 'sk', which was almost always 'sh' in old english, inital ca- and ga-/gi- palatalize to cha- or ya-/yi-, initial v- is w-, hard medial g's are also often palatalized or w's (depending on the context) etc.
many of the below forms are/were in attestation (and indeed come from the same proto germanic form), but often in a different sense.
| ENGLISH | ANGLICISED ('*' indicates not in attestation) | NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| awkward | *avyward | |
| cake | chack/*chatch | |
| call | chall | uncertain if entered Eng. via Norse |
| cast | *chast | |
| club | clump | |
| crawl | *cravel/crabble | |
| dregs | *dredges | |
| dyke/dike | ditch | |
| egg | ay/ey, eyren (plural) | |
| fellow | *feelay> *felly/ *filly | |
| forget | *foryit/foryet | |
| fjord | firth | |
| gap | *yap | |
| get | yit/yet | |
| give | yive, yave, yiven | |
| gun | gouth/guth | attested but not in this sense |
| kid | *chid | |
| knife | (unchanged) | |
| law | lay | |
| leg | *ledge | also 'bone' |
| loose | leas(e) | |
| raise | rear | both from *raizijaną (sometimes an unstressed 'z' can become an 'r') |
| reindeer | ronedeer/rondeer | |
| root | wirt/wort | |
| scrap | shrap | |
| seat | set | |
| sister | swester | (unclear how much O.N. influenced our present form, or whether it evolved naturally) |
| skin | shin | |
| skirt | shirt | could be differentiated with under-, lower-, hanging- etc. |
| sky | shee | also 'himble' |
| steak | *stoke | |
| though | thigh | thigh or theigh are the expected outcomes of O.E. þēah |
| Thursday | *Thundersday/*Thunorsday | |
| ugly | *owly | etymology unclear |
| valkyrie | walkirie/walcurry | |
| Viking | wiking/*wiching | |
| weak | woke | |
| window | windeye |
It may have been done already, but I just like doing these types of things. No archaic letters (þouȝ it ƿould be fun to do afterƿards)
While the suffix -ite would seem to match -ling quite well, the only time I can think of a people being called blanklings is the Easterlings from Tolkien.
While we do have -er as a suffix for the inhabitants of a place, it's mostly used for cities or places ending in land, Netherlander, Hollander, and so forth.
-Ite is also used for inhabitants of a few cities. People from Brooklyn are usually called Brooklynites, not Brooklyners, although my spellcheck recognizes both.
Could we say Israel-ling instead of Israelite.
Another option, and one I prefer, is -ing. The only modern group I can think of are Flemings, people from Flanders. However, several places in England have -ing in their name, such as Ealing. Furthermore, many ancient Germanic tribes carried such names, such as the Shieldings.
Perhaps we could say Israel-ing instead of Israelite. An Israeli would be an Israeler, perhaps?
Chud is short for cannibalistic, humanoid, underground dweller. If we translate the acronym, we get something like maneating, man-shaped, underground dweller, which doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
A better option would be to find another word with that basic meaning. In Beowulf, Grendel is called a thurse, which means something like ogre, troll, or giant. Grendel is a very chudly character. He lives alone in a deep, dark, dank cave, isn't a fan of social interaction, and rampages a mass gathering, killing many people.
I was listening to Swedish news a few minutes ago and I got reminded of 'landsting' in the Swedish broadcast. I then thought, would it possible to use 'landsthing' for a city council, and whoever works there is a 'thingsman' or 'thingswoman'?
My ween (idea) is "worketing".
Rootloring (Etymology)
From English work^(*1) + -et^(*2) + -ing.
^(*1) - Sibword (cognate) of organ.
^(*2) - Sibword (cognate) of -ise.
I think this would be the best prefix for co-, but how would it look had it lived into modern English?
My weens (ideas) are to brook (use) "instell" for "institute" and "instelling" for "institution".