Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| aesc | an Old English rune. |
| atheling | an Anglo-Saxon nobleman. |
| attercop ettercap ethercap | a spider. [OE attercoppa, 'poison head']. |
| bookland | in Old English law, land taken from the FOLKLAND or common land and granted by written charter to a private owner. |
| ceorl churl | in Anglo-Saxon England, a freeman of the lowest rank. |
| corsned | a medieval trial in which the accused had to swallow consecrated bread. [OE. 'chosen piece']. |
| ealdorman | a chief magistrate in Anglo-Saxon England. |
| esne | a domestic slave in Old English times. |
| folkmoot folkmot folkmote | an assembly of the people among the Old English. |
| frithborh | a surety for keeping the peace, aka FRANKPLEDGE. |
| fyrd | a local militia in Anglo-Saxon times. |
| gavelock | a javelin; a crow-bar. [OE gafeluc]. |
| gebur | a tenant-farmer in the pre-Conquest English community. |
| gemot gemote | an Anglo-Saxon legislative assembly. |
| heriot | a payment to a feudal lord upon the death of a tenant farmer. [OE heregeatu, a military preparation, from here, army, + geatwe, preparation]. |
| housecarl | a household retainer of an Anglo-Saxon leader. |
| infangthief | the right of taking and fining a thief within the boundaries of one's own jurisdiction > INFANGTHIEFS. Cf. OUTFANGTHIEF. |
| leasow leasowe | a pasture; (verb) to pasture. |
| mancus | an Anglo-Saxon monetary unit of the value of thirty pence. [OE mancus]. |
| nithing niddering nidderling nidering niderling niding | an infamous person; an abject coward. |
| sceat sceatt | a small silver or gold coin of Anglo-Saxon times. Pl. of both forms is SCEATTAS. |
| scop | an Anglo-Saxon poet and harpist > SCOPAS. |
| sennight | the space of seven nights and days, a week. [OE seofon nihta, from seofon, seven + nihta, plural of niht, night]. |
| sweven | a dream, vision. [OE swefn]. |
| thane thegn | a freeman granted land in return for military service. |
| theow | a slave, a bondman, a thrall. |
| thorp thorpe | a group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet. |
| thrimsa thrymsa | an Anglo-Saxon gold coin. |
| undern | originally, the third hour of the day, about nine a.m. Later, a light meal taken in the afternoon. |
| wapentake | an archaic sub-division of certain counties. |
| weasand wesand wezand weazand wizzen weason wessand | the windpipe. [OE waesand]. |
| welkin | the vault of heaven; the sky. [OE wolcnu, pl.l of wolcen cloud]. |
| wergeld wergelt wergild weregild | money paid by a killer's family to the family of the victim to prevent a blood feud. |
| wicca | witchcraft. [OE wicca, a male witch]. |
| witan | members of the Anglo-Saxon council, the WITENAGEMOT > WITANS. [OE pl. of wita, wise man]. |
| witenagemot | an early English national council. |