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GANOT

  • noun [ masculine ]
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GANOT, ganet, es; m.
A gannet, sea-fowl, water-fowl, fen-duck; ăvis mărina, fŭlix, fŭlĭca
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  • Ganot

    fŭlix,

    • Wrt. Voc. 62, 7 : 280, 13.
  • Ðá wearþ adrǽfed deórmód hæleþ, Óslác of earde, ofer ýþa gewealc, ofer ganotes bæþ

    then the brave man, Oslac, was driven away from the land, over the billows' roll, over the gannet's bath [the sea],

    • Chr. 975
    • ;
    • Erl. 126, 20
    • ;
    • Edg. 46 : Beo. Th. 3727
    • ;
    • B. 1861.
  • Ác fereþ gelóme ofer ganotes bæþ

    a ship [lit. oak] often saileth over the gannet's bath [the sea],

    • Runic pm. 25
    • ;
    • Kmbl. 344, 19
    • ;
    • Hick. Thes. i. 135. 49.
Etymology
[
Plat. gante
:
Dut. gent, m. a male goose, gander
:
O. H. Ger. ganazo, ganzo, m. anetus.
]
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v.  ganet ganet.
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