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tynder

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
tynder, e; tyndren (-in), e (?); tyndre, an; f.
tinder, fuel (lit. and fig.)
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  • Tyndir (-er)

    napta, genus fomenti,

      Txts. 80, 685.

  • Geswǽlud spoon vel tynder

    fomes,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 21.

  • Tynder

    fomes, i. incendium, astula minuta,

    ii.
      150, 4.

  • Tyndrin, tyndirm (-in?)

    isca (=esca fomes, Migue; cf. Span, yesca tinder ),

      Txts. 72, 562.

  • Tyndre isica, Wrt. Voc. i. 284, 21: isca, ii. 45, 74:

    fomentam (-um?),

      40, 7.

  • Tyndre gódes cynnes

    fomentum bone indolis,

      Scint. 206, 17.

  • Tindre

    sica (l. isica or isca ),

      Wrt. Voc. i. 66, 38.

  • Wé habbaþ ðone mǽstan dǽl ðære tyndran ðínre hǽle ... nú ðú ne þearft ðe náuht ondrǽdan forðam ðe of ðam lytlan spearcan ðe ðú mid ðære tyndran gefénge lífes leóht ðé onliéhte

    habemus maximum tuae fomitem salutis ... nihil igitur pertimescas; jam tibi ex hac minima scintillula vitalis calor illuxerit,

      Bt. 5, 3; Fox 14, 9-14.

  • Tyndri

    isica,

      Txts. 116, 179.

  • Of gecyndelícre tyndran

    de ingenito fomite,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 139, 65.

  • Tyndre

    neptam,

      114, 59.

  • Tynder,

      60, 9.

  • Tyndrum

    fomitibus,

      33, 61.

  • Deóful ná gewilnunge tyndran onǽlþ

    diabolus non concupiscentiae fomenta succendit,

      Scint. 210, 3.
a burner, an implement which burns
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  • Mearcísern vel tynder

    cauterium,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 76.

  • Tynder

    furnus,

      149, 84.

  • Tyndre

    cautere,

      Txts. 114, 100.

  • Tund[e]ri,

      111, 19.
Etymology
[He tinder nom and lette i þan nutescalen don and fur þer on brohte, Laym. 29267. Of ston mid stel in ðe tunder, Misc. 17, 535. Tondre, tunder, Piers P. 17, 245. Tundyr fungus, napta, Prompt. Parv. 506. Du. tonder: O.H. Ger. zuntra; wk. f. fomes, isca: M.H. Ger. zunder; m. n.: Ger. zunder: Icel. tundr; n.: Dan. tønder: Swed. tunder. Cf. Goth. tundnan to be set on fire.]
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v. tender, tendan.
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v.  tender tyndre.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tynder.” 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/31409.

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