Old English

[K.J. Simmill]

Hi all

I happened upon this old English translator and thought I would share it.

http://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/

It's really good, especially if you are looking for a word to call something, but don't want to use the norm, or perhaps have someone who calls common things by different names.

for example:
she was pursued relentlessly by the nihtgenga (night-goer) sounds far cooler than goblin

Anyway, I should be writing, I have precious few minutes left, and lots to do on editing my second book.

Have a great weekend all

 

[Emurelda]

Thank you! You too. Have got to a major cleanup to do. Feeling dead inside for not writing in a while

 

[Jennifer Stone]

Very interesting thanks for the share

 

[Jason Byrne]

Hi all

I happened upon this old English translator and thought I would share it.

http://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/

It's really good, especially if you are looking for a word to call something, but don't want to use the norm, or perhaps have someone who calls common things by different names.

for example:
she was pursued relentlessly by the nihtgenga (night-goer) sounds far cooler than goblin

Anyway, I should be writing, I have precious few minutes left, and lots to do on editing my second book.

Have a great weekend all

This is awesome, for my particular work. I did some of this in creating town names, by looking up a word in the MS Word dictionary to get the Old English word root, like Brunbyre, Carnhyll, Cubury, Byrgan Keep, Croftersweg, Hwitton, Sceaphyll, Ofermont's Hollow, or the Cealc Valley.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

In Durham (NE England for US and other non UK members)) people still say 'ganning', or 'ganging', for 'going'.