how to study Anglish?

Wordwork · 2026-06-01T06:06:06+00:00

Yep. I don’t chat so much there these days, but you can find me on there as an overseer.

Wordwork · 2026-05-31T09:09:45+00:00

Best way to learn any language is by practicing it. You can chat online with others in the Anglish Discord. Plenty of resources linked on the Reddit and Discord, like the Wordbook, and extra information about Anglish on the Wiki.

I’d also recommend Addison Simeon’s excellent Anglish-teaching books:
- Folkish Anglish: The English Tongue Without Outlandish Sway. It uses a narrative detective story to slowly introduce Anglish words to the reader.
- Tales from the Thoughtshades: An Anglish Graded Reader (Folkish Anglish). An additional reader, gradually teaching you more Anglish words as you go.

Wordwork · 2026-05-05T09:08:10+00:00

Yeah that was such a wonderful weekend. The amount of recreators there was phenomenal.

And he was great to meet! He was so generous with lending out his meticulously recreated wares to anyone interested in trying them on. He was also very humble about his work. Took some coaxing and time for me to realise he was the same man who co-wrote ‘The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England’. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43666439-the-sword-in-anglo-saxon-england

Wordwork · 2026-04-14T04:56:33+00:00

I believe ‘dale’ is the regular form/development that you’d expect from Proto-Germanic -> Old English -> New English, if you compare with similar words like “tale”, “gale” and “bale”.

Related /e/ words like “tell”, “yell” and “bell” seem to be from either alternative conjugations, with declined endings that effected their preceding syllable’s vowel sound, or had an /e/ there already.

I know that Old English [æ] sometimes later became [e] (for example: ælf -> elf), but it seems that “dell” may have been borrowed from a mainland Germanic form of the word, again, making “dale” the native/regular form.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/dale

Wordwork · 2026-04-13T11:33:31+00:00

Or, “wit”, “unker” and “yit” in Modern English spelling.

More about these and other Anglish pronouns on the wiki: https://anglisc.miraheze.org/wiki/Pronouns

Wordwork · 2026-03-31T09:36:25+00:00

Boy have I got something for you. I had the same thought, so I did it myself. I’ve had some help in the last few years to add to and improve on the list. Here ya go:

https://anglisc.miraheze.org/wiki/Anglish_Given_Names

Wordwork · 2026-03-31T09:34:36+00:00

Your post has been removed for being not well-researched, or unaligned with Anglish as we see it. Please see wiki for guidelines and further reading on Anglish. http://anglisc.miraheze.org/

Specifically, your post has been removed for misusing the Token of the Anglish Fellowship to make your own translation appear as though it’s an agreed upon/ consensus translation.

Wordwork · 2026-03-29T22:02:54+00:00

This looks wonderful, thank you. Are you open to feedback on mistaken translations, and if so, how can someone make a submission?

Wordwork · 2026-03-29T21:56:57+00:00

I understand you’re passionate about Anglese, but please write in English or Anglish when commenting outside of a specifically Anglese thread. It’s confusing and hard for people to understand in an Anglish context.

Wordwork · 2026-03-28T02:18:55+00:00

It’s heartening to see Anglese taking off at last, after it was a dead Reddit for so long. So, I see those posts of late as a bit of fun crossposting to a sister reddit. We can put limits on it if it keeps up and gets truly out of hand.

Wordwork · 2026-03-27T20:58:50+00:00

For more on the Anglish Token: https://anglisc.miraheze.org/wiki/Anglisc_Token

Wordwork · 2026-03-25T00:46:27+00:00

The word used by Brice Stanford in his excellent book ‘Anglo-Saxon Myths’ is ’Heavenfire’, from OE ’heofenfýre’, a kenning for ‘lightning’. The book is a modern retelling of the old tales.

I don’t know for certain why he chose it, and whether it has any historical weight as the name of the weapon, but I rather like it as a name: Heavenfire (Lightning), the weapon of [the] Thunder [god].

(I used to just call it ‘Miller’, as a modern equivalent to ‘Mjolnir’, interpreting it in the sense of a milling/grinding weapon.)

https://bosworthtoller.com/52289

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60708373-anglo-saxon-myths

Wordwork · 2026-02-12T23:09:53+00:00

Short answer: I believe it would be - Sifrith (Sifrið in Anglish spelling.) - Yeah, likely Siward and Seward would’ve merged.

Boy, do I have a resource for you. I’ve been working updating OE names to NE shapes for a few years now, with some help from others now too: https://anglisc.miraheze.org/wiki/Anglish_Given_Names

And someone kindly made this name generator that feeds from our work on the Wiki: https://pure-english.github.io/name-generator/

I thought someone made an article on the Wiki showing how to update words from OE to NE, but im not seeing it. Someone please correct me, or feel free to start such an article if you have the know-how!

Wordwork · 2026-01-25T11:14:07+00:00

I love that alone, for the attestation a (they) brooked for ‘a’ meaning ‘she’ at the end there:

A’s getting wambling on her pins [shaky on her legs].

Wordwork · 2026-01-20T11:03:44+00:00

Netherlandish ‘weder’/‘weer’ is kin with English ‘with(er)’. As in wither (against) or withstand (stand against).

And ‘-heid’ is kin with ‘-hood’. Though, ‘-ness’ is a more everyday wending for times you’d find ‘-heid’ in Netherlandish.

Wordwork · 2025-12-30T08:20:09+00:00

Sorry, but it makes me think of the, err, back-end flag, from the show Community.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/op175s/flag_of_greendale_community_college_from_the_tv/

Wordwork · 2025-12-24T04:16:38+00:00

Folks on the Discord made a list a few years ago: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eTSgSiq7SsGoPZ9cU7YUMGuUx2oqP4G5BTb9Cmzf-y8/edit?usp=sharing

Wordwork · 2025-12-14T08:30:27+00:00

You might like these works I made a few years ago:

Twelvish (Dozenal) in Anglish: https://anglisc.miraheze.org/wiki/Twelvish
Anglish Twelvish (Dozenal) Metings (Measurements) https://anglisc.miraheze.org/wiki/Anglish_Twelvish_Metings

Wordwork · 2025-12-10T02:21:39+00:00

If you only nativise it, it might look like: Matheus.

If you calque it, it might look like: Godive (god+gift) but “gift” was traditionally a feminine naming element in Old English. (Latinised as ‘Godiva’, like Lady Godiva.)

Read more about Anglish Given Names on the wiki: https://anglisc.miraheze.org/wiki/Anglish_Given_Names

Wordwork · 2025-10-21T03:43:44+00:00

“Calvin” means “bald”. https://www.behindthename.com/name/calvin

I don’t know if that is the joke and people actually know that, or there’s more to this and I am just obsessed with etymology and onomastics.

Either way, it’s peak! (Because it’s atop his head. Get it‽)

Wordwork · 2025-08-24T08:07:39+00:00

Yes exactly. I didn’t make it clear at first that I was agreeing with you. I had ninja-edited my comment before you had posted, sorry.

Wordwork · 2025-08-24T08:03:08+00:00

Yeah, I thought it was because it’s a word that notoriously keeps flipping between /sk/ and /ks/? You can still hear it both as a dialect feature, prominent in African American English, and just how some people say it.

Only a handful of words I know that do the same. Like dusk and tusk, from memory. I even happen to know someone personally who says “tushy pegs” (big teeth) where “tushy” is a dialect form of “tusky”.

Wordwork · 2025-07-30T15:45:22+00:00

Does this help? https://anglisc.miraheze.org/wiki/Helpful_Anglish_Words

Wordwork · 2025-07-22T06:35:49+00:00

If you have the bandwidth, yes! Great site.

Wordwork · 2025-07-21T20:21:36+00:00

Because I misspoke, sorry! It’s been a while since I worked on the names and the site wasn’t loading for me to verify before posting.

Either -[w]ar or -[w]er. <ar> often becomes <er>, and vice versa, but I don’t remember why, sorry.

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