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| rad | "quick" | |
| rade | "to be quick" | |
| radmood | "hastey" | |
| radness | "quickness" | |
| rail | "to clothe" | |
| rail | "clothing" | |
| railchest | "clothing-chest" | |
| railhouse | "house for clothing; vestry" | |
| railthane | "keeper of clothing" | |
| railward | "keeper of clothing" | |
| rake | "throat" | |
| rake | "explanation, account" | |
| rakent | "chain, fetter" | |
| rakentie | "chain" | |
| rakentie | "to chain" | |
| ramson | "onion, garlic" | |
| rand | "margin, border; boss of shield; shield itself" | |
| randbea | "boss of shield" | |
| randhavend | "shield bearer" | |
| randwie | "shieldwarrior" | |
| rane | "whale" (other spelling rone) | |
| ravenkin | "a kin of ravens" | |
| rawness | "rawness" | |
| reaf | "plunder" | |
| reaflock | "robbery" | |
| ream | "noise" | |
| read | "advice" (other spelling rede) | |
| readbore | "adviser" | |
| readen | "condition" | |
| readenwrit | "written agreement" | |
| readfast | "resolute" | |
| readfastness | "resoluteness" | |
| readful | "wise" | |
| readgive | "counsellor" | |
| readingshamble | "reading stool" | |
| readless | "illadvised" | |
| readly | "advisable" | |
| readman | "counsellor" | |
| readsman | "counsellor" | |
| readster | "(female) reader" | |
| readwise | "wise in counsel" | |
| reaflock | "robbery" | |
| reather | "breast, bosom" | |
| reaver | "robber" | |
| recken | "ready" | |
| recklest | "carelessness" | |
| redd | "to free from" | |
| redding | "freeing, salvation" | |
| rede | "advice" | |
| reeden | "made of reed" | |
| reen | "to arrange" | |
| rend | "to tear" | |
| rep | "to touch" | |
| repping | "sense of touch" | |
| reer | "to move, to shake" | |
| reermouse | "bat" | |
| reerness | "disturbance" | |
| reethe | "fierce" | |
| reethemood | "fierce-hearted" | |
| reetheness | "fierceness" | |
| reeth | "victory" | |
| reeve | "to roof" | |
| reeveship | "reeve's office" | |
| reezingly | "perishable" | |
| rem | "to hinder" | |
| remming | "hinderance" | |
| resp | "stripping, spoilation" | |
| rew | strong past tense of row | |
| rich | "kingdom" | |
| richdom | "kingly rule; wealth" | |
| rid | "rider" | |
| ridder | "sieve" | |
| ridder | "to sift" | |
| ridgebone | "backbone, spine" | |
| ridgemarrow | "spinal marrow" | |
| rief | "scabby, leperous" | |
| riff | "belly, womb" | |
| rift | "veil; curtain" | |
| rightdoing | "doing what is right" | |
| rightdom | "right judgement" | |
| rightend | "director, leader"" | |
| righter | "director, leader" | |
| rightfasten | "duly ordained fast" | |
| rightfastenday | "duly ordained fasting day" | |
| rightfastentide | "duly ordained time of fasting" | |
| rightfathernkin | "direct paternal line" | |
| rightheamed | "lawful wedlock" | |
| righting | "direction; guidance" | |
| rightledge | "to make right" | |
| rightlorddom | "lawful authority"" | |
| rightmothernkin | 'direct maternal line" | |
| rights | "rightly, straightly" | |
| rightspel | "rightful discourse" | |
| rightthue | "lawful slave" | |
| righttide | "proper time" | |
| rightwere | "lawful husband" | |
| rightwife | "lawful wife" | |
| rightwise | "righteous" | |
| rightwise | "to make righteous" | |
| rightwisehood | "righteousness" | |
| rime | "number" | |
| rime | "to count" | |
| rimebook | "calendar" | |
| rimecraft | "arithmetic" | |
| rimecrafty | "skilled with numbers" | |
| rimer | "calculator" | |
| rimple | "wrinkle" | |
| rin | "contact" | |
| rindle | "runnel, runner" | |
| rine | "to touch" | |
| ringnet | "ringmail" | |
| ringiwindle | "sphere" | |
| rink | "man" | |
| risen | "fit, meet" | |
| rith | "fever" | |
| rith | "rivulet, stream" | |
| rither/rother | "bovine-beast" | |
| ritherherd | "neatherd" | |
| rithern | "of cattle, bovine" | |
| rock | "overgarment, rochet" | |
| rodder | "heavens" | |
| rodderly | "heavenly" | |
| Romeleed | "men of Rome" | |
| Romerich | "empire of Rome" | |
| Rometheed | "Romans" | |
| Romeware | "the inhabitants of Rome" | |
| rone | "whale" | |
| roneroad * | "whaleroad; the sea" | |
| rood | "the cross" | |
| roodbore | "crossbearer" | |
| roodfasten | "to crucify" | |
| roodpine | "pain of the cross" | |
| roodtoken | "sign of the cross" | |
| roofwright | "roofmaker" | |
| roomgivel | "liberal" | |
| roomgivelness | "liberality" | |
| roomhanded | "liberal" | |
| roomheart | "largehearted, generous" | |
| roomheartness | "liberality" | |
| roommood | "liberal" | |
| roommoodness | "liberality" | |
| roomness | "breadth, abundance" | |
| roop | "clamour" | |
| roop | "to shout" | |
| root | "glad" | |
| rootfast | "strongly rooted or established" | |
| rootness | "gladness" | |
| rootfast | "firmly established" | |
| ropeincel | "small rope" | |
| rord | "voice; food" | |
| rord | "to speak; to feed" | |
| rordday | "feast-day" | |
| rording | "refection" | |
| rordinghouse | "refectory" | |
| rordingtide | "mealtime" | |
| rorn | "fallen" | |
| rosen | "made of roses" | |
| rosered | "red as a rose" | |
| roughship | "roughness" | |
| roun | "mystery" (other spelling rown) | |
| roun | "to whisper" | |
| rouse | "earth" | |
| rown | "mystery" | |
| rown | "to whisper" | |
| rown | strong past participle of row | |
| rowncrafty | "skilled in mysteries" | |
| rowner | "whisperer, talebearer" | |
| rownly | "mystical" | |
| rownstaff | "runic letter" | |
| rownwit | "counseller" | |
| rud | "red colour; blush" | |
| rud | "to become ruddy" | |
| ruddock | "robin" | |
| rue | "sorrow, penitence" | |
| rue | "sad, sorrowful" | |
| rueness | "penitance, contrition" | |
| ruey | "sorrowful" | |
| ruth | "mercy" | |
| ryen | "made of rye" |
* Roneroad: the famous kenning from Beowulf:
...o���t him �ghwylc �ara ymbsittendra
ofer hronrade hyran scolde...
"...Until to him each neighbour over roneroad should obey..."
Words that originally had hr- or hl- lost their h in Middle English, thus rone for hron.
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