Why Oaken Flaxen Olden but not Elmen Wheaten Newen ?

W   Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:06 pm GMT
Weave - Woven

Dwarf Dwarves - would it be Dwarfen or Dwarven?

Dwort (tooled up short folk or Dwarflike)

Dworten - Dworten HMS Dworten

Dwortie - bearded shorties/short asrses

Dwarfeners (folk who live underground, alikened with northerners, southerners etc)

Shelve - 1591, "to overhang," back formation from shelves, plural of shelf. Meaning "put on a shelf" first recorded 1655; metaphoric sense of "lay aside, dismiss" is from 1812. Meaning "to slope gradually" (1614) is from M.E. SHELVEN "to slope," from shelfe "grassy slope," related to shelf.
twelve

Delve - Delven holes, delf (quarry)

Shelf - Shelven ditch (to slope a ditch)

Twin - Twen (twin)

Folk - Folken (Folksy)

Ash - Ashen (Ashendove - Pidgeon)

Rye'/Royall/Royal - Ryen (the barn sits overlooking ryen fields)

Corn - Cornen, Cornt, Cornern
.   Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:24 pm GMT
wilven = fierce, cruel (i.e. "like a wolf")
Elmenbackgarden   Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:50 am GMT
A wilven vixen slaughtered every rooster, hen and chick in sight, while the wilven farmer's workers were fast asleep drunken on wages of ale and rotten corn.

While the wilven farmer's workers were fast asleep drunken on wages of ale and rotten corn, a wilven vixen slaughtered every rooster, hen and chick in sight.
swingle flax   Sat May 01, 2010 8:33 pm GMT
Beaten -

"hammered" (of metal, etc.), c.1300, from pp. of beat (v.). Meaning "defeated" is from 1560s; that of "repeatedly struck" is from 1590s.
Leasnam   Mon May 03, 2010 2:59 pm GMT
words like "beaten", "woven", etc do not fall into this category, as their "-en" is not derived from PGmc *-inaz, but rather from the verbal ending *-anaz.
Loyola   Wed May 12, 2010 4:57 pm GMT
chick - chicken

A nice chicken dress.
.   Wed May 12, 2010 5:43 pm GMT
dude - duden

A cool duden pair of boots
Adam   Thu May 13, 2010 5:26 pm GMT
Beechen is a word. It means "Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech."
Knobersburgh Suffolk   Fri May 14, 2010 11:11 pm GMT
stunt - stunten (made stunted or of a stunted appearance)

Deep inside the hallow holt sat stunten beech and alder crowned with rooks, crows, ravens, jackdaws and chough.
Jan Wils   Tue May 25, 2010 11:50 pm GMT
Feather - feathered - featheren
.   Wed May 26, 2010 6:59 pm GMT
<<Deep inside the hallow holt sat stunten beech and alder crowned with rooks, crows, ravens, jackdaws and chough. >>

This is probably better yolden by:
Deep inside the hallowed holt sat stunted beech and alder, crowned with rooks, crows, ravens, jackdaws and chough.
Adam   Wed May 26, 2010 8:52 pm GMT
A wilven vixen slaughtered every rooster, hen and chick in sight, while the wilven farmer's workers were fast asleep drunken on wages of ale and rotten corn.

While the wilven farmer's workers were fast asleep drunken on wages of ale and rotten corn, a wilven vixen slaughtered every rooster, hen and chick in sight.
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I feel like I've been transported back in time to England of 1650.
Wilfrid Knostrop   Thu May 27, 2010 11:40 pm GMT
'drunken on wages of <STALE> ale and rotten corn'

Know wonder cunts changed their names from Ryehull, Ryhull, Ryehill, Ryhill to Royall/Royal(?)

List of rye diseases...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rye_diseases
Litherland   Sat May 29, 2010 8:50 pm GMT
Ryen fields bewashed the road side as far as the naked eye could see
Wavertree   Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:20 pm GMT
Mink - 'minken' the woman's pussy was all hairy and minken to grope.