Writ and Wit

Wit is the word for knowledge, cognate Wissen in German. It refers to a kind of corporeal knowledge that we find in science and intelligence. 

Writ is anything that is written, as in the modern English word writ which is less used but in a select few cases that have become outdated, such as legal terms. A writ therefore can refer to any written work, being the word for writing, which I have divided into longwrit and curtwrit. Longer written works like novels and plays are longwrits while passages and articles are curtwrits. This goes into the realm of word-count and you can form systems further by referring to the most current charts for what constitutes novels and short stories. 

In an effort to provide a more Germanic vocabulary for English, which has been undertaken by some in the idea of Anglish, I have presented here a list of words I find most benefactual for use in English writing. The idea here isn't to replace all foreign-rooted words in English for the sake of purism, as is with the Anglish endeavor, but to provide simple alternatives that make more sense in a Germanic/Anglo-Saxon literary mind and can be used interchangeably with the current vocabulary. This is the best method for reinstating Anglo-Saxon vocabulary in its Germanic sense, and it also is built for the sake of language and literature rather than the other way around, which is taxing and obstructive to the goals of language and literature.

Thede - nation, people, race; actual archaism, cognate Deut in German. From this we can derive several more words that have since only used Latin roots: 

Thedeland - Germany, cognate Deutschland in German. Also could be Thedishland or Thedshland

Thedish - German, cognate Deutsch in German. Perhaps it could follow the same form as Swede and become the toponym Theden. Also use of Thedic. 

Bethede - to mean, signify, cognate Bedeuten in German; Betheding - meaning, sense, significance; Thedely - articulate, clear, distinct

From this convention we can also use Anglish and Angland to denote English and England. 


OTHER NOUNS

Lede - person, people, cognate Leute in German; exists in the sense of growing up from the soil, hence people in a specific area emphasizing closeness with the soil, such as in peasant classes. 

Evenland - Europe
Morrowland - Asia

Witship - science. Makes more sense than the commonly suggested Witcraft or Lore, because Witship cognates with German Wissenschaft and carries the same linguistic meaning, which is science. Because wit signifies the actual knowledge, ship does not need to be appended to logies like biology or astrology; astrology would be starwit and astrological science would be star witship. Lore is a poor suggestion because lore is akin to mythology, which is a memorized archetypal knowledge of unscientific things, while wit is scientific and is based on experimentation or intellectual evidence.

Heirship - dominion, reign, built after Herrenschaft in German using "Heir" as a term for Lord, carrying additional hereditary implications. The cognate with the German word would actually be Hoarship from the hoary color of a man's hair, whence the word Herr came.

Meanship - community, cognate Gemeinschaft in German

Sellship - society, cognate Gesellschaft in German

Talebook - novel, also use of Novelbook

Wordbook - dictionary, wordbook

Wort - plant, actual archaism

Bild, pict - picture 

Starswirl - galaxy, whorl starswirl - spiral galaxy

Roomwit - astronomy. Makes more sense than the commonly suggested Roomlore, because lore is akin to mythology and is not scientific.

Outsunnish wanderer - extrasolar planet

Waterstuff - hydrogen
Sunstuff - hellium 
Sourstuff - oxygen


VERBS

to ly - to like (pronounced lee), derived from the mutation of the suffix -like into -ly. By the same virtue, I have suggested Ry for Reich or Empire.  

to overset - to translate, cognate Uebersetzen in German

EXAMPLE

The signs from the Morrowland bedethe thoughts peculiar to the Morrowlandish lede. Their thedes comprise a distinct mindbild [psychology], with variation, reflecting the different elements of their meanship. Such things persist even in the era of witship's heirship, and will so long as the starswirl swings in the sky. These bedethings, of which there are thousands, are often objects of confusion to the thedes of Evenland, even in the face of the best efforts put forth by Thedish Morrowlandwitters in the past century. Masses of wordbooks are made to bridge this gap, but lede continue to ly remaining ignorant.

NOTES

This list is nowhere near complete nor is it intended to be. It is only for the benefit of the reader to form like-words through the methods above for their own writing. The ones I have mentioned are significant for one reason or another, which is why they are included here. 

Thanks to the Anglish Wikia (The Anglish Moot) for providing a history of Anglicization and calque techniques.