Old english phrases

Learning new words are important for every writer, but it doesn't mean we should forget words which used in the past. Let's remember those English words now!

"From an unrecorded Old English word or from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse glitra "to glitter," from Proto-Germanic *glit- "shining, bright" (source also of Old English glitenian "to glitter, shine; be distinguished," Old High German glizzan, German glitzern, Gothic glitmunjan)." . . #wordoftheday

Have you ever heard an old English phrase and had no idea what it meant? With the evolution of language, many phrases used in Old English have gone out of use.

Forswear (which is also sometimes spelled foreswear) is the modern English equivalent of Old English forswerian. It can suggest denial ('[Thou] would'st forswear thy own hand and seal' — John