Here are the words for WINDOW, that Geoff would have nown as a laddie. eyethurls - (thurl is old English for hole or gap) - was disappearing from use, having been the only English word for window since the 9th century fenester - (emphasis on the middle syllable) - was the new Middle English fashionable term - it appears in the first known advertisement for a private house (1396) window - had been around since 1225: It meant "wind eye" vindauga - is the Old Norse term, the source for window (it also means "wind eye") and was certainly in use in northern parts until the 20th century (cf Makken "vindigger") finniter - was the Shropshire / Welsh border word (used in Langland) See-door - is from Cornwall ffenestr - is medieval welsh (and very close to modern welsh) finster - would be what a fenlander would have called it (almost the same as Frisian, methinks) rampt - is the Midland term (which Shakespeare certainly knew) rut - pronounced roo-ut - was from Essex Geoffrey definitely used Windows and was not a Mac man. |
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