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The Kenning Lexicon

A reverse dictionary. Every fragment on this site indexed by what it means rather than how it sounds — so you can look up wolf and see how 110 traditions say it, with worked examples of the names each one builds. Free under CC BY 4.0.

A

7 senses

B

31 senses

C

27 senses

D

17 senses

E

9 senses

F

24 senses

G

23 senses

H

28 senses

I

3 senses

J

2 senses

K

3 senses

L

17 senses

M

18 senses

N

5 senses

O

5 senses

P

16 senses

Q

3 senses

R

17 senses

S

49 senses

T

18 senses

U

2 senses

V

8 senses

W

24 senses

Y

2 senses

The rest of the corpus

Not yet indexed

11,593 further senses appear in the corpus but in fewer than 4 traditions, so they do not yet have an entry of their own. They are in the data, and they gain a page as more traditions are added. The complete corpus is downloadable under CC BY 4.0.