Basic Anglo-Saxon English
From Langmaker
| Conlang | Basic Anglo-Saxon English |
| Author | Jeffrey Henning |
| Year Began | 1995 |
| Language Type | fictional language |
| Lexicon Size | 850 |
| Etymologies | No |
| Grammar | No |
| Sample Texts | No |
| Primer | No |
Basic Anglo-Saxon English was invented by Jeffrey Henning as a fictional language. It has been used for a translation of the Babel Text.
Uniqueness
An unimaginative derivative of Basic English, replacing all words not of Anglo-Saxon origin.
The following lists do not give equivalents for the non-Anglo-Saxon words, but they do identify which words those are.
Of the 850 words in the Basic list, 517 are AS, 323 [38%] are non-AS, 8 are mostly AS or are pre-AS borrowings from Latin, and 2 are ambiguous.
While I believe it is possible to find native English equivalents (or near equivalents) for the 323 non-AS words, I think it would be very difficult to do.
In the following I use "s" for AS, "r" for Romance (but actually it's all non-AS), and "s+" for the 8 mostly AS.
The two ambiguous words are: sound (healthy s; audio r) pen (corral s; writing r)
The 8 s+ words are: chalk, pocket, reward, soup, sponge, ticket, waste, wine.
The 517 s words: a, about, across, after, again, against, all, almost, among, and, angry, answer, ant, any, apple, arm, as, at, awake, baby, back, bad, bag, ball, band, basket, bath, be, bed, bee, before, belief, bell, bent, berry, between, bird, birth, bit, bite, bitter, black, blade, blood, blow, blue, board, boat, body, boiling, bone, book, boot, bottle, box, boy, brain, brake, brass, bread, breath, brick, bridge, bright, broken, brother, brown, bucket, building, burn, burst, business, but, butter, by, cake, cart, cat, cheap, cheese, chest, chin, church, clean, clock, cloth, cloud, coal, coat, cold, collar, comb, come, cook, copper, cork, cough, cover, cow, crack, crush, cup, cut, dark, daughter, day, dead, dear, death, deep, dirty, do, dog, door, down, drain, drawer, drink, driving, drop, dry, dust, ear, early, earth, east, edge, egg, end, enough, even, ever, every, eye, fall, false, far, farm, fat, father, fear, feather, feeling, field, fight, finger, fire, first, fish, fixed, flag, flat, flight, floor, fly, fold, food, foolish, foot, for, fork, forward, fowl, free, friend, from, front, full, get, girl, give, glass, glove, go, goat, gold, good, grass, great, green, grey/gray, grip, growth, gun, hair, hammer, hand, hanging, happy, harbor, hard, hat, hate, have, he, head, healthy, hearing, heart, heat, help, here, high, hole, hollow, hook, hope, horn, horse, house, how, I, ice, if, ill, in, ink, iron, island, judge, jump, keep, kettle, key, kick, kind, kiss, knee, knife, knot, knowledge, land, last, late, laugh, law, lead, leaf, learning, leather, left, leg, let, lift, light, like, linen, lip, little, living, lock, long, look, loose, loss, loud, love, low, make, man, mark, market, match, may, meal, meat, meeting, middle, milk, mind, mist, mixed, month, moon, morning, mother, mouth, much, nail, name, narrow, near, neck, need, needle, net, new, news, night, no, north, nose, not, now, nut, of, off, offer, oil, old, on, only, open, or, other, out, oven, over, owner, past, pig, pin, plant, play, plough/plow, pot, power, pull, push, put, quick, quite, rain, rat, reading, ready, red, rest, rice, right, ring, river, road, rod, roof, room, root, rough, round, rub, run, sad, safe, sail, salt, same, sand, say, screw, sea, seat, see, seed, seem, self, send, shade, shake, shame, sharp, sheep, shelf, ship, shirt, shoe, short, shut, side, silk, silver, sister, skin, skirt, sky, sleep, slip, slope, slow, small, smash, smell, smile, smoke, smooth, snake, sneeze, snow, so, soap, sock, soft, some, son, song, south, spade, spoon, spring, stamp, star, start, steam, stem, step, stick, sticky, stiff, still, stitch, stocking, stone, stop, straight, stretch, strong, such, sudden, summer, sun, sweet, swim, tail, take, talk, tall, taste, teaching, than, that, the, then, there, thick, thin, thing, this, though, thought, thread, throat, through, thumb, thunder, tight, till, time, tin, tired, to, toe, together, tomorrow, tongue, tooth, top, town, trade, tray, tree, trick, true, turn, twist, under, up, very, view, waiting, walk, wall, war, warm, wash, watch, water, wave, wax, way, weather, week, weight, well, west, wet, wheel, when, where, while, whip, whistle, white, who, why, wide, will, wind, window, wing, winter, wire, wise, with, woman, wood, wool, word, work, worm, wound, writing, wrong, year, yellow, yes, yesterday, you, young.
The 323 r words: able, account, acid, act, addition, adjustment, advertisement, agreement, air, amount, amusement, angle, animal, apparatus, approval, arch, argument, army, art, attack, attempt, attention, attraction, authority, automatic, balance, base, basin, beautiful, because, behavior, branch, brush, bulb, button, camera, canvas, card, care, carriage, cause, certain, chain, chance, change, chemical, chief, circle, clear, color, comfort, committee, common, company, comparison, competition, complete, complex, condition, connection, conscious, control, copy, cord, cotton, country, credit, crime, cruel, cry, current, curtain, curve, cushion, damage, danger, debt, decision, degree, delicate, dependent, design, desire, destruction, detail, development, different, digestion, direction, discovery, discussion, disease, disgust, distance, distribution, division, doubt, dress, education, effect, elastic, electric, engine, equal, error, event, example, exchange, existence, expansion, experience, expert, face, fact, family, feeble, female, fertile, fiction, flame, flower, force, form, frame, frequent, fruit, future, garden, general, government, grain, group, guide, harmony, history, hospital, hour, humor, idea, important, impulse, increase, industry, insect, instrument, insurance, interest, invention, jelly, jewel, join, journey, language, letter, level, library, limit, line, liquid, list, machine, male, manager, map, married, mass, material, measure, medical, memory, metal, military, mine, minute, money, monkey, motion, mountain, move, muscle, music, nation, natural, necessary, nerve, noise, normal, note, number, observation, office, operation, opinion, opposite, orange, order, organization, ornament, page, pain, paint, paper, parallel, parcel, part, paste, payment, peace, pencil, person, physical, picture, pipe, place, plane, plate, please, pleasure, point, poison, polish, political, poor, porter, position, possible, potato, powder, present, price, print, prison, private, probable, process, produce, profit, property, prose, protest, public, pump, punishment, purpose, quality, question, quiet, rail, range, rate, ray, reaction, reason, receipt, record, regret, regular, relation, religion, representative, request, respect, responsible, rhythm, roll, rule, scale, school, science, scissors, second, secret, secretary, selection, sense, separate, serious, servant, sex, shock, sign, simple, size, society, solid, sort, space, special, square, stage, statement, station, steel, stomach, store, story, strange, street, structure, substance, sugar, suggestion, support, surprise, system, table, tax, tendency, test, theory, touch, train, transport, trouble, trousers, umbrella, unit, use, value, verse, vessel, violent, voice.
By their groupings into operations, things, picturable things, qualities, and opposites: (the columns are: grouping/r/s/s+/ambiguous (if not zero))
100 operations 2 r 98 s 0 s+
400 things 212 182 5 1 r/s
200 picturable things 53 143 3 1
100 qualities 41 59 0
50 opposites 15 35 0
850 total 323 517 8 2
