Designations in parentheses behind the words show language from which the word was derived. Other abbreviations: >dim-dimuative form n-noun v-verb vt-verb transitive vi-verb intransitive adj-adjective prep-preposition ahent: (Scottish) near alchemy: (Medieval Latin) the "science" of searching for a substance for transmuting base metals to gold, for the universal cure for disease, or for everlasting life. amulet: (Old French) ornament, gem, or scroll with a charm against evil, talisman, often enscribed annular: (Latin) ring-shaped (penannular - almost ring-shaped) common shapes of cloak brooches arrowman, arrowoman: professional archers assart: n or vt: to grub, hoe, or clear land - particularly forest land - or a piece of cleared land bailey: (Middle English) enclosed courtyard ballista (ae): (Latin) a medieval machine for throwing stones in battle, like a huge cross-bow balm: (Greek) fragrant, soothing salve balmacaan: (Scottish) A rough wool coat with raglan sleeves balusters: (French) spindles balustrade: balusters and rail bane: (n) (Anglo-Saxon) thing which brings ruin or harm or injury (v t) to harm or injure barb: (Old French) 1. pieces of white pleated linen worn over or under the chin 2. a neckband bard: (Celtic) a poet/singer of poetry about heroes bárd - Irish bàrd - Scottish barenth: (mine) underground dweller, evil, wolf-like face and hairy human body, wears byrnie and helmet, favorite weapon a gisarme barm: (Anglo-Saxon) brewer’s yeast, also used as a household baking yeast barrow: (Anglo-Saxon) hill or mound, sometimes for burial beck: (Scottish) rushing brook beechen: (Anglo-Saxon) made of beech wood beek: (Scottish) (v.t., v.i.) to bask or warm ben: (Scottish) a mountain, also, to come within a house bent: (Archaic English) a moor, a heath, an unenclosed pasture besom: (Anglo-Saxon) a broom of twigs, particularly birch or heather-Brit slang: an ugly-looking or ugly-tempered old woman, . bight: (OE byht-bend.) 1. a bend in the coast forming a opne bay or the bay formed by such a bend. 2. a loop of rope billet head: a relatively simple scrollwork ornament at a ship’s bow…believed to be of Celtic origin, to have come back to English from Old French billete. black band hlystaner: on Glyn, the highest level of novice skills boding: (n) premonition, omen, portent, foreboding boreen , bohreen (Anglo-Irish) a narrow road or lane bouk: (Scottish) trunk of the body brae: (Scottish) hillside along a river, brow of a hill, a steep road, a mountain district, uplands braes: (Scottish) breeches brake: (Anglo-Saxon) rough or wet land heavily overgrown with thickets or reeds braw: (Scottish) (adj) bravely dressed, handsome, fine brawley: (Scottish) (adv) excellently, fine, well brawne: (Old French) meat from a boar or domestic pig breck: (Scottish) rough, sandy, undulating ground, scattered trees brig: (Scottish) bridge brindled (brinded): (Provincial English or Scottish) tawny or grayish, with streaks and spots (dog or cow) brogue: (Gaelic Irish) coarse shoe of untanned hide brome: (German - brom) coarse, bearded grass brooch: burn: (Scottish) stream or rivulet byre: (Anglo-Saxon) cow barn or shed byrig: (Welsh Gaelic) enclosure byrnie: (Old Norse) shirt of coat of mail, hauberk cabalistic: (Medieval Latin) secret, mystic arts or science, occult cadgy: (Scottish) merry, cheerful, glad caer: (early Celtic) hill caillech: candelabrum (Latin) a many branched candle holder. anglicized - candelabra (s) is also acceptable. cantrips (to cast): (Scottish) to cast spells, horoscopes cap: (Scottish) wooden two-handled bowl, used like a cup (Middle Eng) coppe carraig or corraig: (Celtic) high cliff or outcropping carraugh: Pict boat cartouche: (French) convex rounded building plaque (escutcheon) with framing decoration, with painted or low relief decorations in center. A scroll-like design. cellarer: (Old French) a person in charge of the cellars of a castle, monastery, etc. chemise: shirt chistr: cider cist: (Welsh) a neolithic grave lined with stone slabs coffer: (Latin) a chest or strong box, a safe (2) a deeply sunk panel in a ceiling, ornamented or plain collieshangie : (Scottish) noisy quarrel collop: (Middle English) a piece of meat (2) (Irish) a pasture that will feed an animal for a year or the equivalent (3) as many animals that can feed in an Irish acre (4) a two-year old heifer collops: hanging folds of flesh (as on fat people) commoner: person who lives in a commune community, commune: group living conjuration: (Old French) spell or hex conjurer: one who performs magical tricks, a magician or wizard coombe: (Anglo-Saxon) a ravine-like narrow valley or (esp. Scottish) a hollow in the side of a hill of mountain copse (or coppice): (Old French) a thicket or grove, usually for cutting Tree is cut. Saplings from stumps grove 7 to 20 years, then are cut. New saplings grow, etc. coracle: (Welsh) small round boat with wood frame, filled with grasses or wicker, waterproofed with oiled skin or asphalt cote: (Anglo-Saxon) (1) shelter for animals (2) small cottage (3) ancient holding of a cotter, consisting of a house or hut and 5 acres of land. cotte: (cotehardie) a long-sleeved garment, thigh-long for men, full length for women. Made to fit closely by buttons or lacing. Belted at hip for men. coven: a group of witches who practice religion together cowl: (Anglo-Saxon) hood or hooded garment crag: (Celtic) high rocky point or cliff craichy: (Scottish) illish, cranky, not feeling good creesh: (Scottish) (n, v.t.) grease cresset (Old English) lamp: depression in stone or clay filled with oil and with a wick. Could be carried. croft: (Scottish) a small farm, often rented land, or a pasture on a small farm crofter: the owner or renter of a croft cromlech: (Old Welsh) Used somewhat interchangeably with dolmen. These are arrangements of primitive standing stones, either a slab on top of upright stones, or a circle of stones. Often thought to have magic or ancient religious properties. cruk: cryptic: (Latin) having a secret meaning cucullus: (Latin) hood dagger: (Medieval Latin) double-bladed knife daimen: (Scottish) (adj) occasional dale (vale): (Anglo-Saxon) a river valley daub: (Old French) (v) to smear or cover with a soft adhesive matter such as plaster (n) plaster or whitewash dell: ravine, hollow, usually wooded or turfed deal: pine or fir planks 7-9 inches wide, and long enough for tables, etc. deiseil: (Scottish Wican) to walk clockwise in a circle dirk: long dagger divine (to) (Old French) to tell of what will happen in the future, to prophecize, to foretell, presage, portend doire: an oak grove (often sacred) (Irish) corrupted to derry in place names. duir: related word, is the Irish Ogham tree alphabet name for oak. dolmen: (French) 2 or more upright slabs or stones supporting a horizontal slab, cromlech drammach: (beverage) oatmeal, seasoned with salt and pepper, mixed with water until thin enough to drink. dreye: (Middle English) horse drawn wagon for carrying goods, dray dùgan: (Scottish Gaelic) darkness of the loch, the darkest time of anything eatinghall: (mine) a dining room or hall elderkin: (Anglo-Saxon elder meaning earlier, former, older ) + kin Irish for the "Little Folk," elves, leprechauns, fairies, brownies, fyr derrigs, puca, pixies (Cornish - pisties), etc. eleigh: elf: (Old English aelf) a tiny mischievous fairy elixir: (Medieval Latin) a powder sought by alchemists that would lengthen life, cure all disease, change base metals to gold ell: (Old English) a measurement, usually of fabric, varying from 27 to 45 inches eveningside: (mine) west faggot (fagot): (French) bundle of twigs tied together fairy: (Old French) goddess of fate (fate=fairy), supernatural being also faerie or faery familiar: (Old French) enchanted creature that is attached to a mage, usually acting as servant, protector, or go-between with mage and spirit worlds. farseer: (Medieval) one who sees things at a great distance feill: (Celtic) evening fell: (Old Norse) mountain height, hill, or moor fell: (Scottish) adj smooth, clean, snug fen: (Anglo-Saxon) swampy, boggy area firth (frith): (Old Norse) an estuary or narrow arm of the sea flannel: (Welsh) a soft, woolen, cloth flask: (Vulgar Latin) bottle-shaped metal containers (dim> flasket) flax: plan from which linen cloth is made flush (Middle English) work: flint (small, round stones, gray, or the same stones cut in half giving a glassy black surface) fill, usually inside stone tracery fold: (Anglo-Saxon) enclosure for sheep or cattle foretell: (fore-Old English, plus the verb tell) to tell of what will happen in the future, to presage, to divine, to portend foreteller: one who can see the future, or gets prophecies fornent: (Scottish) (prep) facing, opposite, in the direction of, in regard to fosse: (French) a ravine, ditch, gully, moat frock: (Scottish) a coarse worsted top worn over or instead of a shirt fuarag: (crowdie) (Scottish) oatmeal mixed with cold water and allowed to soak: a cold gruel furze: (Anglo-Saxon) a spiny shrub with many branches and yellow flowers. Used for fuel. Young shoots used for fodder. (gorse, whin) fyr derrig: (Celtic) dwarf-type male in red coat. Fireside dweller Gives protection to household also fir dearc garth: (Old Norse) small yard or enclosure ghyll (also gill): (Scottish) small stream or rivulet or a small wooded valley gillie: (Gaelic) servant gisarme: (Old French) blade sharpened both sides, or hook on one side, sharpened on the other, fastened to shaft. glade: (1) open place in a forest (2) a buzzard glaive (or glave): broadsword glen: (Celtic) secluded narrow valley gnome: (French) short men who live underground, mine jewels gobbet: (Old French) chunk (usually of meat or fat) golden bough: mistletoe gowan: (Scottish) white or yellow field flowers, particularly daisies gowany, gowaned: covered with gowans (white flowers, such as daisies) gowpen (Scottish) (1) two hands held together to form a bowl (2) the amount that can be held thus (3) a large quantity greensward: grass-covered area gremalkin: old female cat gremlin: small gnomes, trouble maker grot: (mine) meat/carrion-eating creatures, pets of gnomes, often used as spies, look like muskrats with protruding teeth, long claws, and red eyes. gruel: (Old French) a thin porridge from grain boiled in water or milk to make a think broth or a pudding grushie: (Scottish) adj. healthy, thriving gruthim: raw cheese curds in whey hackle: to comb out flax or hemp haft: (Scottish) fixed or settled abode or pasture hamlet: (Old French) a cluster of houses in the countryside haugh: (Scottish) piece of low flat ground beside a river haver: (Scottish) 1. the oat, oats 2. to talk foolishly havermeal: (Scottish) oatmeal haversack: (German) a sack or case to carry supplies/provisions in. hayward: in charge of hedges and fences at a manor heath: like moor, with low, scrubby plants hedgerow: a row of shrubs or trees put in to enclose or separate fields henge: circle of stones hind: (Anglo-Saxon) peasant, low class hind: female red deer hlystaner: a listener, a telepath (my coined) from Anglo-Saxon hlystan: to listen, to hearken hoarfrost: hoar is Anglo-Saxon for gray or white (+ frost) imprecation: (Latin) calling down curses upon, to invoke evil jerkin: jacket or short coat of leather kirtle: (Anglo-Saxon) tunic or gown lackey: (French) menial, servile attendant laedaigg: (mine) Highest officer (chief) in an warrior force. Strategist lambent: (Latin) 1. running or moving lightly over a surface (lambent smile, lambent flame) 2. dealing lightly and gracefully with a subject (lambent wit) 3. softly bright of radiant (lambent light) lammas (loaf): (Anglo-Saxon) holiday Aug 1 (first loaf baked with new grain) lave: (Anglo-Saxon) (n) what is left, the remainder, the rest lea (also ley): (Anglo-Saxon) pasture, meadow, fallow land lea: 80 yards of wool, or 100 yards of linen lictus: medicine to be licked up lifebreath: (mine) the medium through which hlsynaners communicate, cyberspace lime: (Anglo-Saxon) (calcium carbonate) used in tanning and in plaster and mortar linden: (European) tree with heart-shaped leaves, small white flowers, (lime tree, basswood) linn: (Anglo-Saxon)waterfall or pool beneath a fall, cataract, water running over rocks linnet: (Old French) small brown or gray songbird that eats flax seeds Also called furze-linnet looking glass: (my coined) telescope mage: (Latin) magician, wizard (adj) magian mast: (Anglo-Saxon) nuts as food for pigs, esp acorns and beechnuts mead: (Anglo-Saxon) a fermented drink made of honey, usually considered a kind of wine mead-hall: (Anglo-Saxon) guild halls/ lodgings of professional warriors medium: (Latin) one who goes between In Kildonan, wizards who are guardians of the stone-bearers and get messages for them from the spirit worlds (Arvon and Erthe). melliflous: {Latin melli (honey) fluent (flow) } 1. sweet, flowing (voice) 2. sweetened w/honey menhir: {Cornish maen (stone) hir (long) } tall standing stone erected as burial or battle monument Rough or smoothed mesne lord: (pronounced mine) holds property between superior lord and inferior tenant miche (Celtic) (v) to lurk, skulk, sneak milch-cow: (Anglo-Saxon meolce - milk) cow that gives milk mickle: (Anglo-Saxon) great much monolith: (Latin) a single large stone made into a monument, statue, or pillar moor: (Anglo-Saxon) (1) extensive area of open rolling infertile land, sand, rock, or peat. Covered with heather, bracken, coarse grass, sphagnum moss (2) boggy area with sedges and grass in peat (3) fen morningside: (mine) east muffle: (Scottish) mitten mure: (v.) (Medieval Latin) to imprison muzzy: (slang) thinking foggily, muddled nadir: (Old French) the lowest point necromancer: (Latin) foretells the future by communicating with the dead or any dark-side wizard. neuk: (Scottish) nook or corner nogging: brick fill of a half-timbered wall novice hlsytaner: one who is studying the skill at the first level. obelisk: (Greek) tapering 4-sided monolith with pyramid point occult: (Latin) referring to alchemy, magic, astrology, and other arts using divination, incantation, magical formulae, etc. osier (or sally): (Medieval Latin) willow (for weaving baskets, wickerwork, weirs, wattle and daub) overseer: in Kildonan, the commune job assignment of overseeing (supervising) all the work/activites of the commune. panoply: (Greek) full set of armor or other magnificent covering patrol: in Kildonan, 9 sudeours philtre, philter: (Latin) love potion piggin: (Gaelic) shallow vessel or long-handled dipper porridge: (Middle English) grain boiled in water or milk to make a think broth or a pudding and is usually referred to in the plural. i.e. those porridge porringer: a dish for porridge posset: (Middle English) hot milk curdled with liquor such as ale or wine, sweetened, spiced, and sometimes thickened with bread. posset-cup: a utensil for making/drinking posset pottage: (Old French) a dish made by boiling vegetables or vegetables and meat; a soup prefect: in Kildonan, administrator of a guild of professional warriors presage (to): (French) to foretell, predict, prophecize puca: (Celtic) evil spirits quoit: (Middle English) stone cover of a cromlech or cist rath: (Irish) hill or mound, often man-made (to) redd (up): (Middle English reden) clean, straighten reeve: (Middle English) over all tenants on a manor, kept accounts, ranks below steward rill: (Low German) rippling small stream, brooklet, streamlet rinceau: a carved border, alone or on a frieze, of entwined (arabesque) leaves, sometimes with flowers or fruit rowan tree: mountain ash rune: (Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse) secret, mysterious, magic language. runlet: (Middle English) beck, streamlet, brook, runnel salve: (Anglo-Saxon) a healing ointment, unguent scon, scun, scoon: pronounced skun or seeun. To cause to skip, as a stone on water, to skim or pass quickly. scuned or scund, scunning In Cormac’s case, to scoon is to teleport. scraggy: lean, thin, bony scraggly: rough, ragged scrog: (Middle English skrogg) used in Scottish and related dialects: stunted bush, a branch scrogs: brush, thicket seax: (Anglo-Saxon) short sword sherte: similar to chemise or shirt, but collarless and usually long and full with long full sleeves. shiel or shieling: (Scottish and North England) hut or shanty, herdsman’s hut sigil: (Latin) occult or magic sign: seal or signet skeld: (mine) a chief rank in a warrior force, commands 12 tals (264 armsbearers) skry: (v.t, v.i.) to see the future, to prophesy skyrlie: (Scottish) Brown onions in fat. Add oatmeal and stir into a firm paste. Season. sleeproom: (mine) bedroom or dormitory smoor: to bank or cover a fire for the night, sometimes a ritual act solitary: a witch who practices the religion alone, as opposed to coven (group) worship sorcerer: (Old French) person who practices magic with the aid of evil spirits sough: (vi) (suf, sou) and (vt) (n): (Scottish) sigh, rustling, murmur, rushing sound. spectre: (Latin) ghost sprite: (Old French) a spirit of earth or air, a fairy , elf, or goblin spurtle: a flat spoon for stirring porridge, also called a pobstick or thivel stele (stelae): (Latin) slab or pillar with inscriptions steward: (Anglo-Saxon) highest ranking servant of a Lord or King (there are many kinds of stewards) stone-bearer: (mine) wearer of one of the Mêrthyrn stones sudeour: (mine) lowest rank in warrior force surcote: (Old French) a tunice-like outer coat or cloak swain: (Old Norse) a peasant or rustic sycophant: (Greek) servile flatterer tal: (mine) 27 sudeours; can be broken into patrols of 9 talisman: (Greek) a gem, scroll, or ornament that bears a charm to avoid evil or do strong magic. tarrydiddle: (Middle English) to waste time thane: (Scottish from Middle English from Anglo-Saxon)A warrior or one holding land from the king or the head of a clan. In Kildonan:warriorforce battlefield commander, the second highest chief. Also, any professional or highly skilled warrior thaumaturge: (Greek) worker of wonders, of miracles thieveless (Scottish) (adj) ineffectual, aimless, spiritless, or cold in manner thig: (Scottish) (v) to get or borrow, to cadge thigger (n) thrall: (Anglo-Saxon) one in bondage; slavery toady: a truckler to the rich and powerful, to fawn tor: (Anglo-Saxon) high craggy hill, rocky pinnacle or peak torque: (Latin) gold neck piece. often twisted, warn by warriors (Celtic) or nobles (Saxon/Norse) trews: (Scottish) tight knee-length Celtic trousers tuaithiuil: (Scottish Witan) counter clockwise, wrong, left, enemy tunic: (Latin) short or long overshirt turf, turves: (Anglo-Saxon) blocks of peat used for fuel understory: small growth under forest canopy vassal: (Celtic) tenant, dependent, bondsman, or slave vellum: (Old French) thin, supple calfskin used for book pages or cover verjuice: (Old French) acid liquor from fermented fruit juice vitki: (Icelandic) wizard waegen: (Old English) wagon wain: (Anglo-Saxon) wagon (waegen) warder: in Kildonan, lowest chief rank, commands 1 tal (27 armsbearers) warlock: (Anglo-Saxon) wizard, mage, sorcerer warriorforce: (mine coined) the armed warriors (army) of a king or other leader wattle: (Anglo-Saxon) twisted and interwoven twigs and withes to make a structure. Often daubed with mud or plaster to form a wall. wench: kitchen help, female wergild: payment for wrongful death wersh: tasteless, insipid, feeble, shriveled weskit: vest whey: watery milk from cheese making wicket gate: small door within a larger door (small door for people, large door for pack animals) into courtyard wimple: (1) a turn or twist in a stream (2) a woman’s head veil witan: (1) one who knows, or a council of knowledgeable (2) witch (Anglo-Saxon witanagemut)) corrupted to Wicca (masculine) or Wicce (feminine) witch: one who performs magic withe (withie-popular English): tough, flexible stem (as in willow or hazel) used to bind things or make snares, wave baskets, mats, for wattle witling: stupid person woad: blue dye from plant of the mustard family. dye is from the leaves. wold: rolling clear uplands or moors (obs woodlands) woodward: in charge of the woods of a manor woodwose: mythical "Man of the Woods" like a satyr wynd: narrow, winding lane wyvern: 2-legged dragon used in heraldry yill: (Scottish) ale