ymbe
Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Noun
Gender: Neuter
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Related §§ in Wright's OE Grammar:
ymbe
a swarm of bees. v.
imbe.
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Cite the scanned version of the original dicionary like this:- Toller, T. Northcote, and Joseph Bosworth. "ymbe." An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth : Supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. 752.
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ymbe
(imbe), es; m. (?) A swarm of bees :-- Wið ymbe . . . forweorp ofer greót þonne hí swirman, and cweð: 'Sitte gé sigewíf . . . ,' Lchdm. i. 384, 18. ¶ Imbæs dæl occurs Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 176, 20. [O. H. Ger. impi bíanó examen apium: M. H. Ger. imbe; m.: Ger. imme; f.] V. ymb-haga.