HÝÐ
- noun [ feminine ]
Grammar
A HITHE, or place that receives the ship,
etc., on its landing; a low shore, fit to be a landing place for boats, etc.,a port, haven
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Hýð
angiportus, i. refrigerium navium,
- Ælfc. Gl. 5 ;
- Som. 56, 32 :
- Wrt. Voc. 17, 36 :
confugium, i. statium, portus,
- ii. 131, 5l .
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Hýð
portus,
- Ælfc. Gr. 11 ;
- Som. 15, 8.
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Seó án hýð byþ simle smyltu æfter eallum ðám ýstum úrra geswinca
hic portus placida manens quiete,
- Bt. 34, 8 ;
- Fox 144, 27 :
- Bt. Met. Fox 21, 21, 25 ;
- Met. 21, 11, 13 .
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Ðæt hie wilnigen ðære hýðe ðæs gesinscipes
ut conjugii portum petant,
- Past. 51, 8 ;
- Swt. 401, 33.
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Martha swanc ðá swilce ors réwette and Maria sæt stille swilce æt ðære hýðe,
- Homl. Th. ii. 440, 32 .
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Hera ðone steórman ac ná ǽrðan ðe hé becume gesundful tó ðære hýðe,
- 560, 22 .
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Cómon ðǽr þrý men tó ðære hýðe
three men came to the landing-place,
- Guthl. 11 ;
- Gdwin. 54, 24.
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Ðǽr æt hýðe stód æðelinges fær,
- Beo. Th. 63 ;
- B. 32 :
- Elen. Kmbl. 495 ;
- El. 248 :
- Exon. 52 a ;
- Th. 182, 8 ;
- Gú. 1307 .
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Hé hí on hǽlo hýðe gelǽdde
eduxit eos in portum,
- Ps. Th. 106, 29 ;
- Exon, 20 b ;
- Th. 53, 34 ;
- Cri. 860 :
- Salm. Kmbl. 489 ;
- Sal. 245 .
Etymology
Prompt. Parv. hyþe, where bootys ryve to londe, or stonde stacio.
Hithe occurs in the names of seaports, and also landing-places on rivers, far from the coast,
p. 242, note 1. Kemble, Cod. Dipl. iii. xxxii, notes Rotherhithe (hrýðra hýð)
the place where oxen were landed; Clayhithe, near Cambridge; Erith, in Kent and
Cambridge, Eárhýd; Cwénhýð, Queenhithe.
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Entry information
Citation
Bosworth, Joseph. “HÝÐ.” 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/20404.
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