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England, since the Norman Overrunning, hath known some few good kings or queens, but groaned beneath a much greater reckoning of bad ones: yet no man in his right wits can say that their call for it under William the Overrunner is a fully worthy one. A French mongrel landing with a band of weapon-bearing reavers and fastening himself king of England in gainsay of the inland folk’s will, is in readily understood words a fully worthless and fiendish wellspring. It truly hath no godliness in it. However it is needless to spend much time in baring the witlessness of offspring-grounded right; if there are any so weak as to believe it, allow them to let loose in worship of the Ass and the Mane’d Cat, and welcome. I shall neither match their meekness, nor stir anything up with its hold on them.

Don't know if it would be the same word for farspeaker (telephone) contact and the one for rine (touch).

Hi. I don’t speak Anglish, I just discovered this sub today. I’m posting because I’m interested in etymology and language evolution, and you guys seem to differ in opinion on whether Anglish should be more readily understandable, usually via compound words, or if more archaic words should be revived in their original forms. Some instances are both. It’s interesting because it’s still being decided in the present day as of writing this. 

For example, would you guys render the word su*cide as self-quell? or do some prefer the original selfcwalu/selfcwellan?  (update: I just checked the Anglish Wordbook, and it lists selfmurther. Would my suggestion be considered a synonym?)

Is mast*rbation a revived selfcƿēman/ selfcweman? Or something else. 

(My brain is choosing more taboo-ish words that aren’t brought up normally.) (Also, words like taboo that are exotic loanwords are accepted, right?) 

Is infidelity revived as ǣwbryċe, or would you create a new compound word? The most logical would presumably be “wed-breach”. Is divorce then “wed-break”? But breach and break both come from brǣcan, they were the same word in Old English and Proto-Germanic, though they may have still evolved to have separate meanings. (I see that in the wordbook its "tropless", but that's only an adjective.

Sex can be translated as "hǣman/hǣmed" or "bedship", from what I can tell. Again an Old English word, and an archaic compound word, though the meaning here isn’t readily obvious even in context. (I see now it's been rendered as heam in the wordbook. Very cool.)

What would the word be for homosexual? — "Same-haemed?" "Queer?" We have the existing Old English word "bædling", but our modern understanding of this word would be “femboy”,  or “transgender” or “sissy”, which doesn’t account for masculine male homosexuals. Or a word for lesbian. What would be a neutral word without extra associations? 

(Update: I see in the wordbook that baddle is there and has been translated as "intersex/ hermaphrodite"; this is a diplomatic and logical translation, though I think the modern overarching "genderqueer" or "transgender" is more suitable as a translation. A more suitable translation for ba(e)dling, which is different than baddle.

(Sidenote: it tickles me that the word twink is in the wordbook). Why don't we have a word for homosexual?

I’m interested to hear anyone’s thoughts on these words and their possible translations. 

Whilst many words from Norman French either fully edstew the lutter English word, like "use" instead of "note", or bestand in a sundry stale alongside the ordly word like "freedom" and "liberty", there soothly must have been others that trucked to edstow the inborn word and are no longer noted. Does anybody know of any?

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