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heorot

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
heorot, heort, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§48; §92; §341;
A hart, stag, male deer
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  • Nán heort ne onsúnode nǽnne león

    no hart shunned any lion,

    • Bt. 35, 6; Fox 168, 9.
  • Heorot hornum trum

    the hart firm of horns,

    • Beo. Th. 2742; B. 1369.
  • Heorut

    cervus,

    • Ps. Stev. 41, 1.
  • Swá hwá swá slóge heort oððe hinde hine man sceolde blendian

    whoever killed hart or hind should be blinded,

    • Chr. 1086; Erl. 222, 27, 28.
  • Mid heortes horne and mid ylpenbáne

    with hart's horn and with ivory,

    • Herb. 131, 2; Lchdm. i. 244, 8
    • :
    • Med. ex Qadr. 2, 1, 2, 3; Lchdm. i. 334, 2, 5, 9.
  • Heortas and hinda

    harts and hinds,

    • Bt. Met. Fox 19, 33; Met. 19, 17.
  • Heortas

    cervos,

    • Coll. Monast. Th. 21, 31.
Etymology
[
Icel. hjörtr
:
O. H. Ger. hiruz cervus
:
Ger. hirsch
.]
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v.  heort.
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  • heorot, n.