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HEALM

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
HEALM, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§335;
HAULM, straw, stem or stalk of grass, stalk of a plant
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  • Healm

    culmus,

      Ælfc. Gl. 59; Som. 67, 127; Wrt. Voc. 38, 49.

  • Healmes láf

    stipulæ,

      Som. 67, 129; Wrt. Voc. 38, 51.

  • Gán and gadrion him sylfe ðæt healm

    let them go and gather straw for themselves,

      Ex. 5, 7.

  • Swá windes healm

    sicut stipulam ante faciem venti,

      Ps. Th. 82, 10.

  • Genim rigen healm and beren

    take rye and barley straw,

      L. M. 1, 72; Lchdm. ii. 148, 11.
a roof of straw[?]
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  • Ciricsceat mon sceal ágifan tó ðam healme and tó ðam heorþe ðe se mon on biþ tó middum wintra

    ciricsceattum, debet reddere homo a culmine et mansione, ubi residens erit in Natali,

      L. In. 61; Th. i. 140, 13.
Etymology
[Prompt. Parv. halm stipula: Icel. hálmr; m. straw: O. H. Ger. halm; m. culmus, calamus, stipula, festuca: Ger. halm: Grk. κάλαμos a reed.]
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v.  halm.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “HEALM.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/18431.

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