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ǽ-welm

  • noun [ masculine ]
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ǽ-welm, -wellm, -wylm, -wylme, -wielme, es; m. [eá water, wælm a welling or boiling up]
A welling up of water, spring, fountain, source, head of a river, beginning; aquæ fons
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  • Swá sum mical ǽwelm and dióp

    as some great and deep spring,

    • Bt. 34, 1; Fox 134, 10
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  • Seó eá cymþ eft to ðam ǽwelme

    the river comes again to the source,

    • Fox 134, 17
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  • Ðe mæg geseón ðone hluttran ǽwellm

    who can behold the clear fountain,

    • 35,6; Fox 166, 25
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  • Gif he gesión mǽge æðelne ǽwelm ǽlces gódet [MS. goodes]

    if he may see the noble fountain of all good,

    • 23, 7; Met. 23, 4: 20, 517
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    • Met. 20, 259
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  • Andlang Lígan óþ hire ǽwylm

    along the Lea unto its source,

    • L. A. G. 1; Th. i. 152, 9
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  • Ðære ǽwylme [MS. L. ǽwielme] is neáh ðære eá Rínes

    whose spring is near the river Rhine,

    • Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 18, 25
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  • God is ǽwelm and fruma eallra gesceafta

    God is the beginning and origin of all creatures,

    • Bt. Met. Fox 29, 161
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    • Met. 29, 81
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v. eá-wylm.
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v.  ǽ-wylm eá-wylm.
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