◆ Lexicon
A working lexicon of West Germanic memory.
A curated record of words attested in elder voices across Dutch, Afrikaans, German, English, and West Frisian. Some are genuinely vanishing — words a 75-year-old uses naturally that a 25-year-old has to ask about. Others are alive but illuminating: words that travel between languages, words with no clean equivalent, words that have quietly displaced their predecessors.
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dwiele
/ˈdwiː.lə/
noun
Dishcloth; floor cloth; rag used for wiping surfaces. Drents and Gronings dialectal equivalent of standard Dutch...
regional
NL
mardy
/ˈmɑː.di/
adjective
Spoilt, sulky, whining, easily upset; (of a child) soft, pampered. East Midlands and Yorkshire dialect. Widely...
regional
EN
mither
/ˈmɪð.ə/
verb
To bother, pester, nag, fuss; to make an unnecessary nuisance of oneself; (intransitive) to moan, ramble, or talk...
regional
EN
nesh
/nɛʃ/
adjective
Unusually sensitive to cold; soft, weak, tender; (of food) soft or succulent. Northern England dialect (Yorkshire,...
regional
EN
siepel
/ˈsiː.pəl/
noun
Onion. Low Saxon dialectal word used across the Dutch northeast (Drenthe, Groningen, Twente, Stellingwerfs) where...
regional
NL
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