The Key to the Family Deed Chest: How to Decipher and Study Old Documents / Being a Guide to the Reading of Ancient Manuscripts

by Emma Elizabeth Thoyts

Cyrc, Cyrce, Cyrice, Circ, Circe, church—the last two most common; Culfre, a dove; Cealc, chalk; Ceorl, churl or husbandman.

Ent, a giant; Eorisc, a bulrush; Errich, stubble; Enid or Ened, a duck; Emn, even.

Fearras, Ferris, oxen; Fearh, a little pig; Fearh-Cwæl, swine-fever.

Getreminc, fortress; Gat or Yat, a Goat.

Halga, a saint; halig, holy; Hyd, hide, a land measure; Ham, home, homestead; Hurst, or Hyrst, a wood; Holt, a grove; Hleotan, to cast lots (meadows were held in lots, or allotments, from a very early period, and so continued up to the time of the Enclosure Acts); Hluton, part allotted; Halm, stubble.

Ith Yrnth, arable; Ilt, a sow.

Ley, Lea, Leaze or Lay, Lye, meadow or grassland.

Neolnes, more properly spelt Neowlnes, an abyss.

On-œl, a burning.

Riip, harvest.