New to the site but love words esp Old English. However, you are missing something in your daily emails. Please give the original meaning of each of the double words that make up daily words. That would allow the reader to get into the mind sets of our English ancestors as to how their origin words combined to give an image or thought I.e. whale road for the sea.
Thanks,
Robert Hunt
New to the site but love words esp Old English. However, you are missing something in your daily emails. Please give the original meaning of each of the double words that make up daily words. That would allow the reader to get into the mind sets of our English ancestors as to how their origin words combined to give an image or thought I.e. whale road for the sea.
Thanks,
Robert Hunt
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I’m not sure which word you’re referring to, but I do this already with kennings. Your example of ‘whale-road’ or instance: https://oldenglishwordhord.com/2015/02/25/hran-rad/
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