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Grammar
híwisc, l. híwisce, híwisc. For suffix cf. ídisc(e).
Wright's OE grammar
§632;
After the bracket in the last line but one insert Hml. Th. i. 310, 28. Æt híwisce, and add:
a family, house
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  • Fader híwisc

    pater familias,

    • Rtl. 190, 21
    • .
  • Se fæder híuuisc ł hiórodes fæder ł hígna fæder,

    • Lk. L. 13, 25.
  • Se fæder híuuisc (ðe fæder ðæs hiórodes,

    • R.
    • ),
    • 14, 21
    • .
  • Cuoedas gié ðǽm fæder híuuisc ł hiórodes,

    • 22, 11.
    [In the Northern specimens the word shews no inflection, and might almost be taken for an adjective qualifying fæder, if it were not for the last passage, where fæder is dative.]
  • Laurentius him ðæs getíðode, and nigontýne wera and wífa his híwisces gefullode,

    • Hml. Th. i. 422, 23
    • .
a hide of land with a household settled on it, a family-holding of land [cf. the two forms given to the same regulation
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  • Gif wilisc man geþeó ꝥ hé hæbbe híwisc landes, and Gif hé beó tó þám gewelegod ꝥ hé hýred and éht áge,

    • Ll. Th. i. 186, 13
    • and
    • 23
    • .
    See Andrews' Old English Manor. p. 167, n. 2: Seebohm, Vill. Com. s. v.: Sax. Eng. i. 92].
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v. híw-scipe;
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  • Æt Bitelanwyrthe án híwisce, and æt Brómleáge án híwisce,

    • C. D. B. iii. 133, 18
    • .
  • In loco qui dicitur heregeardingchíwisce,

    • C. D. ii. 51, 19
    • .
  • Æt Cemele tién hýda, æt Domeccesíge þridde half híwisce,

    • 53, 16
    • .
  • Óðer half héwisse,

    • iii. 410, 12.
  • Ðis his ðára .v. hída bóc æt Dydylingetúne and ðas ánes híwisces æt Uddingc (cf. Ðis sint ðáre .v. hída landgemǽre tó Dydylingtúne and ðas syxtan æt Udding,

    • 444, 27
    • .

    In the Latin charter the grant is described as 'aliquam terrae partem duobus in locis, id est v mansas ubi uulgariter dicitur aet Dydylingtúne, et unam mansam ubi uocitatur aet Uddinge',

    • ii. 330, 1
    • ),
    • iii. 445, 22
    • .
  • On óðre healfe ánes híwisces,

    • 435, 13
    • .
  • Ðis synt ðá landgemǽro ðæs híwisces æt Winterburnan ... Ðis his ðæs híwisces landgemǽro on Wiht

    (cf. duas mansas, unam mansam in Uecta Insula, aliam ... æt Uuinterburnan,

    • ii. 299, 6-10
    • ),
    • 431, 7-16
    • .
  • Æt hilcan híwisce,

    • v. 147, 13.
  • Oð ídel híwisce

    (land where no family was living? see first passage under ídel in Dict.)

    eásteweard,

    • 319, 21
    • .
  • Geaf hé him týn híwisca (hída, v. l.) landes ... and æfter medmiclum fæce sealde him mynster þrítiges híwisca (hída, v. l.)

    donauit terram x familiarum ... et non multo post monasterium xxx familiarum,

    • Bd. 5, 19
    • ;
    • Sch. 662, 3-7
    • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. híwiski
:
O. H. Ger. híwiski domus, familia.
]
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