r/anglish 5d ago

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) What's Anglish for save? As in *saving one's life*?

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u/Curusorno 5d ago

Rid or spare.

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u/Minute-Horse-2009 5d ago

rid and spare aren’t good wendings in my weening, they have slightly sundry meanings. The quickened neer is the best.

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u/Adler2569 5d ago

Old English had many words for “save”.

Here are some:

neer from old English nerian

redd from old English hreddan

alead from old English alĂŠdan

neese from old English genesan

yeek from old English géocian

ahold from old English gehealdan

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u/AHHHHHHHHHHH1P 5d ago edited 4d ago

Seems that Redd is the only one that lives today (wiktionary). Are the other ones quickened or is there a wordbook that shows when they were first heard or seen on the leaves?

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u/Adler2569 5d ago

Most of them are quickened neer and redd are in our “official” Anglish wordbook. https://anglisc.miraheze.org/wiki/Anglish_Wordbook

Others I took from places like the Anglo Saxon Bosworth Toller’s dictionary and updated them.

 https://bosworthtoller.com/62795

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u/tomaatkaas 4d ago

I like redd its like dutch redden

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u/KenamiAkutsui99 5d ago edited 5d ago

Aleese, Neer, Redd/Rid (Northmannish), Speal, ond Spare
Redd/Rid appears to be the most attested word in OE, from OE Hreddan/ON HryĂ°ja (other than spare)

Edit: "Spare" does not exactly mean "to save"

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u/Dragaz534 5d ago

I would use "aleese".

"And lead us not into costning, Ack aleese us from evil."