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wealh-stod

  • noun [ masculine ]
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wealh-stod, es; m.
An interpreter
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  • Wealhstod

    interpres,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 86, 60: Ælfc. Gr. 9, 26; Zup. 51, 14.
one who serves as a medium between speakers of different languages
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  • Se cyning gerehte his witan on heora ágenum gereorde ðæs bisceopes bodunge, and wæs his wealhstod, for ðan ðe hé wel cúþe Scyttysc,

      Homl. Skt. ii. 26, 67.
  • Walh*-*stod,

      Bd. 3, 3; S. 526, 2.
  • Hé (

    Jerome

    ) is se fyrmesta wealhstod betwux Hebréiscum and Grécum and
      Lédenwarum, Homl. Th. i. 436, 16.
  • Se hálga biscop hine hádode tó messepreóste, and his wealhstod tó diácone,

      Homl. Skt. i. 3, 525.
  • Nóman hí him wealhstodas (

    interpretes

    ) of
      Franc*-*lande, Bd. 1, 25; S. 486, 23: Homl. Th. ii. 128, 19.
an interpreter of written language, a translator
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  • Ælfréd kuning wæs wealhstod ðisse béc,

      Bt. proem.; Fox viii. 1.
  • Ðæra hundseofontigra wealh*-*stoda gesetnyssa, Anglia viii. 336, 4.
  • Wealcstoda

    interpretum (praestantissimus, Hieronymus,

      Ald. 33), Hpt. Gl. 463, 42.
  • Hié hié (

    books

    ) wendon ðurh wíse wealhstodas on hiora ágen geðióde,
      Past. pref.; Swt. 7, 4.
an interpreter of a subject,
an expounder
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  • Wealhstod

    interpres (divinae legis,

      Ald. 64), Wrt. Voc. ii. 85, 79: 47, 2.
  • Lífes wealhstod,

      Cd. Th. 211, 7; Exod. 522.
a mediator
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  • Se wealh*-*stod Godes and monna, ðæt is Crist

    Dei hominumque mediator,

      Past. 3; Swt. 33, 11.
the word occurs as a proper name
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  • Ðám folcum ðe eardiaþ be westan Sæferne is Wealhstod biscop

    eis populis qui ultra amnem Sabrinam ad occidentem habitant, Valchstod (Uual-, v. l.) episcopus,

      Bd. 5, 23; S. 646, 21.
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v.  -stod.
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