The Canterbury Tales
Geoffery Chaucer

• adoun: down
• agast(e): afraid; frighten
• agayn(s): against, toward
• ago, ago(o)n: gone; ago
• al: all
• *al, al be that: although
• alderbest: best of all
• *als, also: as, also
• * an: an; on
• *anon: at once
• *artow: art thou, thou art
• arwe: arrow
• *as: as, as if, like
• *atte: at, at the
• *aventure: chance
• *axe: ask
• *ay: always

• *been: are
• benedicite: bless us!
• *bet: better
• *beth: are; (imperative) be
• bitwixen: between
• blake: black
• blyve: quickly, soon
• *brenne: burn
• breste, brast: burst
• bresting: bursting
• *but, but if: unless

¹ Reprinted from Gerard NeCastro's eChaucer, which includes the following attribution: "Adapted from https://www.towson.edu/~duncan/glossary.html (Baragona's Chaucer Page), which was adapted from Shoaf and Baugh."