English Animal Names

English Animal Lore

  • badger | Old English *bagga ‘badger’
  • brock
  • brown | Old English *brun ‘pig’
  • buck
  • bull | Old English *bula ‘bull’
  • ean | Old English *ean ‘lamb’
  • deer
  • dog
  • ever
  • farrow
  • gitten | Old English*gæten ‘kid’
  • galt | Old English *galt ‘pig, boar’ cf. gilt
  • gray | Old Englsih *græg ‘badger’
  • hart
  • hind
  • hirse | Old English *hyrse ‘mare’
  • hogget
  • hound
  • ight | Old Englsih iht
  • lamb
  • mare
  • pad | Old English *padde ‘toad]
  • paddock| Old English *padduc ‘frog’
  • pig | Old English *pigga ‘young pig’
  • pocca | Old English *pohha/*pocca ‘fallow deer’
  • poccel | Old English *pohhel/*poccel ‘fallow deer fawn’
  • stead | Old English *stedda ‘horse’
  • stud
  • tack | Old English *tacca and *tagga ‘teg, young sheep’
  • tige | Old Englsih *tige ‘goat’
  • todd | Old English *todd ‘fox’
  • warrow | Old English *wearg ‘wolf ’
  • wether | Old English*wiðer ‘ram, wether’

English Bird Names

English Bird Lore

  • corncrake | Crex crex
  • culver
  • daw | Corvus monedula
  • duck
  • gannet | Sula bassana
  • grackle
  • mouser AKA Mousehawk AKA Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | Old English musere, mushafoc
  • night raven AKA Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax
  • redmouth AKA Pheasant | Phasianus colchicus
  • rook | Corvus frugilegus
  • shelver AKA Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus
  • shrab AKA Shag | Phalacrocorax aristotelis
  • spearhawk AKA Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus
  • stork AKA White Stork | Ciconia ciconia
  • swan AKA Mute Swan | Cygnus olor
  • throstle | Turdus philomelos
  • thrush
  • tish AKA Buzzard | Buteo buteo | Old English tysca