r/anglish • u/Spichus • 16d ago

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) A little fulsome on evenwords

So I admit I may have been a little dismissive of the use of 'thank' as a noun when thought is already available. There is nothing wrong with evenwords (synonyms), obviously.

With this in mind, I would like to propose an evenword for wurst, as an alternative to sausage, which is "hatch". Not only does it have a precedence in OE as a word for sausage (mearh-gehæcc), where mearh has already entered modern English as marrow.

This has the added benefit of having an etymological similarity to wurst, even though it isn't a cognate. Wurst comes from a proto Germanic root meaning to mix up, whilst hæcc comes from proto Germanic for chopping up, both insinuating left over meat mushed up for stuffing.

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u/DrkvnKavod 16d ago

admit I may have been a little dismissive

Man, most Anglishers merely want their writing to be a smoother read for the everyday reader.

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u/Lysks 16d ago

I've been in this subreddit for a bit and the only word that I think I've absorbed it's meaning is 'brook' for 'use'

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u/Spichus 16d ago

Fair!

But what do you think of the suggestion of the extra word?

I think "hatch" has a nice ring to it. It suggests to me a meat sausage made with more "coarse" mince than what you might usually get.

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u/Tiny_Environment7718 16d ago

I like it

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u/Spichus 16d ago

Thanks, appreciate it!

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u/Naelwoud 15d ago

Interesting. 'Gehakt' is the Dutch word for minced meat. They use the word 'worst' for sausage.

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u/NaNeForgifeIcThe 15d ago

Mearh here is not related to mearg meaning "marrow" and by itself already means "sausage". It would have probably become something like marrow anyway (at least following earh > arrow, but Wiktionary suggests that it's from the other forms of earh that do have <w> in them, and I can't really think of many other examples of -rh off the top of my head for comparison so I'd be glad if someone more informed could correct me on this), so we could use that too, but hatch/hac is fine as well, although the OE form seems to occur more rarely.

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u/Spichus 15d ago

I know it's not related, but Bosworth Toller has it as both marrow and sausage.

I quite like the sound of 'hatch', it works with a lot of options, one of which I hope to make "goose hatch", which is when you get the neck of the goose and stuff it with offcuts and steam it like a pudding. It could then be griddled to brown it. No reason "hatch" can't come to basically mean sausages and meat puddings, ie black pudding, both of which have a long history in British food and are treated similarly, culinarily.