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This one is a judgement call.
We could not work out what the word is, so we said so.
Everyone working through the list is told the same thing. A confident wrong answer is worse than admitting we do not know, and the note should still record the best guess we have. abbogada might be an Abyssinian judge's title. aliet might be an old name for a hawk.
It runs at about 4% of everything we have looked at.
When even the guess runs out and the note just says unidentified, the answer comes back red instead of yellow.
2,280 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | Our best guess |
|---|---|
| salfern | apparently an old plant name, unidentified |
| saliaric | perhaps of the Salii, the Salian priests |
| salmary | possibly a salt store or salt-works |
| salutoria | perhaps salutatoria, rooms for greeting |
| sambouse | perhaps an Arabic pastry or a fish name |
| sancord | possibly an old stringed instrument |
| saned | perhaps sained, blessed |
| santii | perhaps santi with a doubled i |
| saple | perhaps Scots sapple, to soak or wash |
| saprodil | possibly a sapro- coinage for something putrid |
| sarcura | possibly a genus name in sarco- |
| sarmatier | perhaps a French form of Sarmatian |
| sarrow | perhaps a dialect form of sorrow |
| satieno | opaque, possibly garbled dictionary text |
| satlijk | Dutch-looking adjective in -lijk, opaque |
| satron | opaque, perhaps a Greek mineral or salt name |
| sauceline | perhaps a sauce dish or a chemical in -ine |
| savintry | perhaps a form of savin, the juniper |
| sawflom | opaque, possibly OCR debris from a saw- compound |
| scabia | perhaps scabies or a clipped Scabiosa |
| scaldra | opaque, no recoverable target |
| scalet | perhaps scaler, or scales with the f/t/s scan slip |
| scalfe | opaque, possibly an old spelling of scalp |
| scalodo | opaque, possibly an Italian food or stone name |
| scalt | perhaps a scan corruption of scald or scalp |
| scarman | perhaps a worker on a rocky scar |
| scaut | perhaps a Scots verb, to scald or scorch |
| scegger | possibly a dialect fish name |
| schizodinic | adjective on some schizo- base, not identified |
| scholasm | perhaps Greek scholasma, leisure, or a slip for scholiasm |
| schooper | unidentified, perhaps a misprint of scooper |
| schrother | perhaps a cask-hauler, from German Schröter |
| scirenga | unidentified, possibly a misprinted plant or fish name |
| scrampum | unidentified, looks like a dialect word |
| scrapler | unidentified, perhaps an agent noun on scrapple |
| screeman | unidentified, perhaps a misprint of screwman |
| scrodgill | unidentified, perhaps a fish or a place name |
| scrout | unidentified, perhaps a dialect form of scout or sprout |
| scruffman | unidentified, perhaps scruff-man, a skimmer of dross |
| sculptorid | unidentified, perhaps a Sculptorid meteor |
| scuppler | unidentified, perhaps an agent noun on scupple |
| scurling | unidentified, perhaps a diminutive of scur |
| scusin | perhaps obs. scusing, to excuse (cf. neighbour scusation) |
| scutta | perhaps scuta, plural of scutum, with t doubled |
| seasan | perhaps seasand (sea-sand) losing its d |
| sebait | perhaps Egyptian sebait, a book of instruction |
| secration | perhaps aphetic consecration, or a slip for secretion |
| seenie | perhaps Scots, cf. the neighbouring seenil |
| sehyo | opaque, perhaps a transliterated loanword |
| sejero | opaque, perhaps a foreign place or trade name |
| selety | perhaps obs. happiness (cf. seely), or safety |
| semaise | opaque, perhaps a fabric or trade term |
| semarum | opaque, perhaps Latin genitive plural debris |
| semidiness | perhaps semidine + -ness, or a slip for semidriness |
| senal | perhaps Spanish senal (mark, brand) used in English text |
| sequa | possibly a truncated headword or a trade name |
| seraphtide | perhaps seraph-tide, a season or feast of angels |
| serwamby | looks dialectal, no confident reading |
| seskin | perhaps siskin, or a variant name of an old coin |
| sesperal | perhaps vesperal, the evening service book, misread |
| sestia | perhaps the moth genus Sesia or the Roman gens Sestia |
| settaine | perhaps septain, a stanza of seven lines |
| sextur | perhaps a mis-scan of sextus or a variant of sextary |
| shakil | possibly an Arabic personal name |
| shamalo | possibly a form of shamal, the Gulf wind |
| shambrier | possibly chambrier, a chamberlain |
| shanksman | possibly shanks-man, one who goes on foot |
| shansa | possibly a place or people name |
| sharan | possibly a people or place name |
| shargoss | possibly a Scots form of shargar |
| sharrag | apparently a dialect word, unidentified |
| shastraik | apparently Sanskrit, of the shastras |
| shawny | possibly shaw + -y, wooded |
| shebar | possibly Hebrew, a breaking |
| sherbacha | apparently Turkish or Persian, unidentified |
| sherbetzide | apparently Turkish or Persian, sherbet-related |
| sheveret | unidentified, possibly a fabric name |
| sheyle | possibly a variant of shail, to walk crookedly |
| shik | possibly a variant of chic or of shick |
| shimper | possibly a dialect form of shimmer |
| shirrel | apparently dialectal, unidentified |
| shither | possibly a dialect verb, to shiver or shake |
| shoofa | possibly Arabic shufa, right of pre-emption |
| shooi | possibly a form of shoo |
| shoppini | apparently OCR debris, perhaps for shopping |
| shoq | possibly Hebrew shoq, the thigh |
| shoreyer | possibly shorer, one who props with shores |
| shortzy | possibly a slip for shorty |
| shrave | possibly dialectal, rough stony ground |
| shravey | possibly dialectal, stony, adjective of shrave |
| shrend | unidentified, possibly dialectal |
| shuhali | possibly a people or place name |
| shutoku | apparently Japanese, unidentified |
| siacalle | unidentified |
| sibbendy | possibly Scots, related to sibbens |
| sibby | possibly dialectal, akin, related |
| sicket | apparently dialectal, unidentified |
| sidia | possibly a genus name or entry-line debris |
| sidrach | possibly the name Shadrach or a romance character |
| siering | possibly searing, or a verb from an obsolete sier |
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