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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 70 traditions say it, with worked examples of the names each one builds. Free under CC BY 4.0.

A

6 senses

B

29 senses

C

17 senses

D

13 senses

E

8 senses

F

15 senses

G

19 senses

H

24 senses

I

3 senses

J

2 senses

K

3 senses

L

15 senses

M

16 senses

N

4 senses

O

4 senses

P

12 senses

Q

2 senses

R

14 senses

S

39 senses

T

10 senses

V

9 senses

W

20 senses

Y

2 senses

The rest of the corpus

Not yet indexed

6,177 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.