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ysel

  • noun [ feminine ]
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ysel, e; ysle, an; f.
A spark, cinder, an ash, ember
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  • Ysle

    favilla,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 19: 66, 44: 284, 17: ii. 36, 53.

  • On yslan

    in favillam,

      Hpt. Gl. 495, 31.

  • Hé geseah hú ða ysla up flugon mid ðam smíce

    vidit ascendentem favillam,

      Gen. 19, 28.

  • Gé syndon dust and acsan and ysela,

      Guthl. 5; Gdwin. 38, 23.

  • Heora wyrtruma bið swá swá windige ysla

    radix eorum quasi favilla erit

    (ls.
      5, 24), Homl. Th. ii. 322, 20.

  • Ða yslan

    cineres,

      Exon. Th. 213, 13; Ph. 224.

  • In onlícnesse uppástigendra yselena (ysla,

    v. l.) instar favillarum ascendentium,

      Bd. 5, 12; S. 628, 23.

  • Geong of ðám yselum (

    de favilla

    ) eft áríseþ,
      Nar. 39, 7.

  • Ic eom yslum and axum geanlícod

    assimilatus sum favillae et cineri

    (Job
      30, 19), Homl. Th. ii. 456, 13.

  • Bearwas wurdon tó axan and tó yslan,

      Cd. Th. 154, 9; Gen. 2553.

  • Gebringeþ bán and yslan, ádes láfe, eft ætsomne,

      Exon. Th. 216, 21; Ph. 271: 236, 18; Ph. 576.
Etymology
[On asshen and on iselen in fauilla et cinere, O. E. Homl. ii. 65, 18. I am bot erþe ful euel and usle so blake, Allit. Pms. 60, 747. Isyl of fyre fauilla, Prompt. Parv. 266 and see note. M. H. Ger. usele; and see Grff. i. 487: Icel. usli a conflagration; a field of burning embers.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ysel.” 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/37268.

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