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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 |
|---|---|
| kiluck | opaque transliteration |
| kingcob | possibly king-cob, an unidentified compound |
| kinksbush | possibly a South African plant name |
| kinofluous | opaque; possibly a kino-resin term |
| kioko | opaque transliteration |
| kirkinhead | possibly a Scottish place name |
| kiutle | opaque transliteration |
| klowet | opaque transliteration |
| knittie | possibly a Scots diminutive |
| knivey | opaque; possibly knife + -y |
| kobird | possibly a variant of cowbird |
| kohlan | opaque transliteration |
| koila | opaque transliteration |
| kokobeh | opaque; possibly a skin-disease name |
| kollast | opaque transliteration |
| kollaster | opaque; apparently kollast + -er |
| kolsun | opaque transliteration |
| kompow | opaque transliteration |
| komtok | possibly a West African fish name |
| konariot | opaque; possibly an ethnic name |
| koolooly | opaque transliteration |
| koosin | opaque transliteration |
| kootcha | possibly a variant of kutcha |
| kouza | possibly Arabic kuza, an earthen jug |
| krelos | possibly a Greek or Balkan term |
| krina | possibly Greek krina, lilies |
| krna | possibly a Slavic place name |
| kukeri | possibly a foreign ritual or plant term |
| kullani | possibly an Eastern fabric or measure |
| kumni | possibly a tribal or language name |
| kuneste | possibly Middle English or a foreign term |
| kunk | possibly dialectal, a shell or lump |
| kurmburra | possibly an Australian Aboriginal word |
| kursch | possibly German, a fur garment |
| kushshu | possibly an Assyrian or Semitic term |
| kuttaur | possibly Hindi katar, a thrusting dagger |
| kwamme | possibly an African personal name |
| kwintra | possibly a foreign trade term |
| kyabuka | possibly an African timber name |
| kyschty | possibly a Russian or Turkic word |
| kyung | possibly a Tibetan or Burmese word |
| labaara | possibly an African plant or place name |
| lachsa | possibly from German Lachs, salmon |
| lacoca | possibly a plant or trade name |
| ladakin | possibly relating to Ladakh |
| lagerspetze | possibly a German mining or geology term |
| lairman | lair + man; probably Scots, exact sense uncertain |
| lairmen | plural of lairman; Scots, sense uncertain |
| lalaqui | possibly a Philippine word |
| lamany | possibly an Indian or Romany term |
| lamden | possibly a place or surname |
| lampatia | possibly a plant or genus name |
| landmil | possibly land-mile or a foreign militia term |
| langoon | possibly Langon, a Bordeaux wine |
| langset | possibly Scots or a place name |
| lanket | possibly dial., a narrow strip |
| lanson | possibly a surname or trade name |
| larcher | possibly a variant of lurcher |
| lareabell | appears to be a fused phrase, sense unclear |
| largy | possibly dial. for large or liberal |
| laron | opaque short string; perhaps a surname or OCR debris |
| larriman | perhaps a dialect occupational name; unplaceable |
| laryngeating | perhaps OCR garble of a laryng- surgical term |
| lascaree | perhaps lascar + -ee; unplaceable |
| lashorn | perhaps lash-horn, a whip handle; unplaceable |
| lassiky | perhaps a dialect adjective; unplaceable |
| lattermint | perhaps latter-mint, a late second crop of mint |
| lauia | opaque; likely OCR debris |
| lawsoneve | perhaps lawsone plus entry-line debris |
| leawill | apparent variant of leewill, good will |
| leeroway | perhaps a nautical term related to leeway |
| leewill | perhaps lee-will, ME "good will, free will" |
| lefsel | perhaps long-s OCR of "lessel" |
| lemosi | perhaps a Latin entry line "lemos, -i" |
| lepsaria | possibly a genus name; unplaceable |
| leptera | possibly a genus name from Greek leptos |
| lesiy | perhaps the Russian leshy, a wood-spirit |
| lestrad | opaque; possibly a truncated proper name |
| letorate | opaque; perhaps aphetic form of electorate |
| lewist | perhaps an adherent of a Lewis doctrine |
| lewnite | perhaps levynite, a zeolite mineral |
| libget | apparently OCR debris, perhaps for budget |
| libinit | apparently OCR debris, unplaceable |
| lidicker | perhaps a dialect animal name |
| lievaart | apparently a Dutch name or term |
| limoid | perhaps file-shaped, from L. lima a file |
| linous | perhaps flaxen, made of flax (L. linum) |
| lintern | perhaps a misprint of lantern |
| littress | perhaps a grade of writing paper |
| lobale | perhaps an anthropometric point on the ear lobe |
| lobfig | apparently OCR debris, unplaceable |
| lomta | possibly an Indian measure or OCR debris |
| lonhyn | opaque; possibly OCR debris |
| lonquhard | Old Scots quh- spelling, sense obscure |
| lordwood | perhaps lord-wood, a timber or tree name |
| lorien | possibly Lorien, a proper name |
| lorriker | perhaps a dialect word; base unclear |
| lughdoan | possibly an Irish name, derivative of Lugh |
| luhinga | possibly an African people or place name |
| luian | perhaps Luian/Luwian, an Anatolian people |
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