Help:Hū secge ic/Speech & grammar

Also see the list of adverbs.

Misc phrases and useful words

Nean - 'approximately', 'about', 'nearly'
Seo eac - 'See also'
eac X gehaten - 'also known as X'
to bisene, to bisne, for bisne - 'for example' (cf. German zum Beispiel)
utanwearde bendas - external links
and swā forþ, asf. - and so forth, etc.
cuman of - 'to come from' - ic cume of Irlande (I come from Ireland)
cuman + ptp - 'to get x, to become x' - þa com Gallicanus eac to Gode gebogen (then Gallicanus also got converted)
cuman up - 'to be born in a country' - ic wæs up gecumen in American (I was born in America)
cuman forþ - 'to be carried out successfully, succeed' - gif se aþ forþ cume (if the oath succeeds)
cuman + infinitive - (to express manner or purpose) - he com lædan he came leading, came to lead; sunnan leoma cymþ scinan a sunbeam shall come shining or begin to shine; com gretan came to greet; com weorc sceawian come to view the work
onginnan + infinitive - (to attempt to, try to; to begin to) - he ongann cuman he attempted to come
don hwone to hwæm' - to make someone something - Romane hie to gafolgieldum dydon the Romans made them tributaries
æht besittan - to sit in council - Ealdormenn besæton æht

Speech

It is time for you to go - tid is þæt þu fere
while he.... - under þæm þe he...; þa hwile þe...
by doing x... - mid þy þe.....
...word for... - ...word mænende..." (but ...word for... usually used, although it is not known if that phrase would make any sense at all to an Old English speaker, but probably ...word mænende... would, as it literally means ...word meaning...")

Directions

Verbs of motion

Gān - to go

Faran - to travel

Adverbs of motion

hider - to here, hither
hanon - from here, hence
þider - to there, thither
þanon - from there, thence
gegnum - away, forwards, straight on, thither (poetic, formal word) (seems like geradeaus, DE)

Numbers

an; forma
twegen, twa, tu; oðer
þrie, þreo; þridda
feower; feorða
fif; fifta
six; sixta
seofon; seofoða
eahta; eahtoða
nigon; nigoða
tiene; teoða
endleofan; endleofta
twelf; twelfta
þreotiene; þreoteoða
feowertiene; feowerteoða
fiftiene; fifteoða
sixtiene; sixteoða
seofontiene; seofonteoða
eahtatiene; eahtateoða
nigontiene; nigonteoða
twentig; twentigoða
an and twentig; an and twentigoða

30. þrītig; þrītigoða 40. fēoƿertig; fēoƿertigoða 50. fīftig; fīftigoða 60. sixtig; sixtigoða 70. hundseofontig; hundseofontigoða 80. hundeahtatig; hundeahtatigoða 90. hundnigontig; hundnigontigoða 100. hund, hundred, hundtēontig; hundtēontigoða 110. hundendleofantig; hundendleofantigoða 120. hundtƿelftig; hundtƿelftigoða 200. tū hund 300. þrēo hund 1000. þūsend

Hē rīcsode seofon mōnþas - he ruled seven months. (hē rīcsode 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 mōnþas)
hē rīcsode seofon and þrītig ƿintra - he ruled thirty-seven years (ƿintra in genitive plural).

Parts, Counting, and Estimation

a certain, some - sum (noun) - sum mann - a certain man
one of - sum + genitive - ic ƿæs þāra manna sum - I was one of the men
some of - sum + pronoun/article - mid sumum þǣm fultume - with some of the help; sume hīe - some of them
negative - ƿiþsacendlic
about, approximately - nēan, fōrnēan (not "ymb")

Note that ordinal numbers ("first, second, third, etc.") are expressed by adding "-þa" (with the weak adjectival declension) to most numbers (note that the "þ" assimilates with other dental consonants)

However, note:

First - forma wk
Second - ōðer st
Ninth - nigoða wk
Tenth - tēoða wk

Words for animal articles

Þæt Gebǣre - behavior
Geþoftung - reproduction (from the verb geþoftian)
Sēo Feðer - feather (pl: feðera)
Þæt fiðere - wing (pl: fiðeru)

Useful affixes

Prefixes

Æt- = at, to, from
Be-, bi- = around, surrounding, turns non-transitive to transitive
Eft- = back, again
For-, fōr- = intensification, opposition [sometimes shortening of "fore-, fōre-"]
Fore-, fōre- = before of time/place
Ge- = no meaning, togetherness, collectivity, verbal perfective meaning
Tō- = division, separation

Suffixes

-el, -ol sm - nominal personal or inanimate
-hād sm = nominal abstract, especially denoting the being of something or a stage of life [like ME "child-hood", "knight-hood"]
-hǣƿen = adjectival "-coloured, -hued"
-incel sn = nominal diminutive
-ing sm = nominal "son of", perhaps useful to show that on thing is product of another; alternate spelling of "-ung"
-isc - adjectival "-ish"
-ness sf = nominal abstract (like MnE "-ness")
-ung sf = nominal making noun of verbs especially