Word origins

• fillyA young female horse.
• aloftAt, to, or in the air or sky.
• manxRelating to the Isle of Man or its Celto-Germanic people.
• OsmanSynonym of Ottoman (“member of the Ottoman dynasty”).
• OsmondA male given name from the Germanic languages, rare in English.
• bulkheadA vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.
• scholesAn urban area in Wigan, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD5805).
• HerrickA surname.
• roteMechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
• BriscoeA hamlet in Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY022114).
• MyerA surname
• busbyA fur hat, usually with a plume in the front, worn by certain members of the military or brass bands.
• skylarkA small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.
• HawesA small market town and civil parish (served by Hawes and High Abbotside Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SD8789).
• carmanA person who transported goods, usually with a horse and cart.
• HaigA surname from Old Norse.
• KirkbyA town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ4198).
• FreyaA female given name from Old Norse of mostly British usage.
• IvorA male given name from Old Norse.
• LundyAn island in the Bristol Channel, off the coast of Devon, England, and included in Torridge district (OS grid ref SS14).
• yawThe rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
• HelgaA female given name from Old Norse occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.
• valkyrieAny of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.
• berserkSynonym of berserker (“a Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy”).
• scranFood, especially that of an inferior quality; grub.
• thorpA group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
• castellA human tower formed in festivals in Catalonia.
• LowestoftA town and civil parish with a town council in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Waveney district (OS grid ref TM5493).
• ColvilleA surname from Norman.
• wailTo cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
• MidgardThe Earth of traditional Germanic cosmology, conceived as a middle realm between heaven (Asgard) and hell (Helheim); the abode of human beings, between those of the gods (Æsir) and the dead.
• abyTo pay the penalty for (something); to atone for, to make amends.
• laitTo seek; search for; inquire.
• ronaCOVID-19.
• capelA composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.
• vangTo take; undertake for.
• HulmeA northern suburb of Warrington, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6091).
• scootA swift movement or trip
• WetherbyA market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4048).
• purlA particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
• LeakeA surname.
• LoftonA surname.
• BraithwaiteA habitational surname from Old Norse.
• astinAny of a group of cyclical pentapeptides originating from the plant Aster tataricus.
• hakeA hook; a pot-hook.
• SkegnessA town and civil parish with a town council in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England (OS grid ref TF5663).
• VidarA god, son of Odin.
• EddaA collection of Old Norse poems and tales from two medieval manuscripts found in Iceland.
• hermA rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration.
• ruckA throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
• BlighA surname from Irish.
• GrimshawA hamlet in Eccleshill civil parish, Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7024).
• berserkerA Norse warrior who purportedly fought in a trance-like frenzy; a berserk.
• knorrA surname.
• spryHaving great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
• gueA kind of fiddle or violin played on the Shetland Islands.
• BirkbeckA surname from Old Norse.
• TrollopeA surname.
• DungenessA headland in Lydd parish, on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland (OS grid ref TR0916).
• HaldaneA surname from Old Norse.
• vendSynonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine.
• CouplandA small village in Warcop parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7118).
• lakinA toy.
• SowerbyA hamlet in Inskip-with-Sowerby parish, Wyre district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4738).
• ThurgoodA surname transferred from the given name.
• GrigsbyA surname from Old Norse.
• LockerbieA terrorist bomb attack on an aeroplane.
• SigurdThe principal hero of the Volsungasaga and of the Elder Edda's Niflung cycle, who slew a dragon.
• marraA friend, pal, buddy, mate.
• kierA bleaching vat.
• ThirskA town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE429820).
• AskinA surname.
• ValgrindThe main entrance to Valhalla in Norse mythology.
• AsgardAny of the kingdom Promethearchaeati of archaea that contain eukaryotic signature proteins.
• DingwallA town and royal burgh in Ross and Cromarty, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH5558).
• ConistonA cattle station in the Northern Territory, Australia.
• crawThe stomach of an animal.
• toftA hillock.
• sheltieA Shetland pony; by extension, any small pony.
• HoldernessA coastal area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
• ThursoA town in northern Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland.
• capleA horse.
• FordyceA village in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland.
• LinklaterA surname from Old Norse.
• skellyA squint.
• BiggarA village in Barrow-in-Furness district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD186662).
• screeLoose stony debris on a slope.
• VollA surname.
• GerdaA female given name from the Germanic languages occasionally used in English, mostly around 1900.
• GarstangA market town and civil parish with a town council in Wyre borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4945).
• HaugA surname.
• WestmanA person from the west.
• LindaleA village in Cumbria, England.
• LeiteA surname.
• helderRather.
• StackpoleA village in Stackpole and Castlemartin community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SR9896).
• bottonA small village in Danby parish, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ6904).
• TurtonA surname.
• limberFlexible, pliant, bendable.
• awfAn elf.