The following is a link to a 17-minute Youtube video from Robwords, an interesting (to me) etymologist. In this video, he describes a
dictionary of 13th-century words, written in 1860 by Herbert
Coleridge, and gives a list from A to (not-Z) of his favorite almost-familiar-sounding words he thinks should be revived for modern
English:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wd08CqED0w>
Afterblismed, Bemothered, Cokedrill, Doomsman, Eirmonger,
Flumbardyng, Galegale, Hernpan, Ibobbed, Jangler,
Komelyng, Lax, Middelerd, Nedre, Orgulous,
Papejay, Quert, Russin, Spinnandweb, Twifald,
Umgripe, Vavassor, Wedbreak, (missing X), Yoxing.
Apparently there were no words beginning with "Z" in the 13th-century,
but there were words beginning with "yogh", a letter which looks a bit
like a mashup between a "Z" and a "3", representing a gutteral "G"
sound.
An interesting game might be to guess these words' meanings before
looking them up.
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