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irþling

  • noun [ masculine ]
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irþling, es; m.
a husbandman, farmer, ploughman
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  • Yrþlingc

    arator,

    • Wrt. Voc. 73. 34
      • :
    • Ælfc. Gr. 41
      • ;
    • Som. 44, 8
      • .

  • Noe ðá yrþling began tó wircenne ðæt land

    coepitque Noe vir agricola exercere terram,

    • Gen. 9, 20
      • .

  • Móna se twentigoþa cild ácenned yrplincg

    a child born on the twentieth day of the moon will be a husbandman,

    • Lchdm. iii. 194, 6.

  • Hwæt sægest ðú Yrþlingc

    quid dicis tu, Arator?

    • Coll. Monast. Th. 19, 11
      • .

  • Hwilce ðé geþuht betwux woroldcræftas heoldan ealdordóm? Eorþtilþ forðam se yrþling ús ealle fétt

    qualis tibi videtur inter seculares artes retinere primatum? Agricultura, quia arator nos omnes pascit,

    • 30, 23-8
      • .

  • Sume synt yrþlincgas sume scéphyrdas sume oxanhyrdas

    alii sunt aratores, alii opiliones, quidam bubulci,

    • 19, 3.

  • Laboratores

    sind yrþlingas and ǽhtemen, tó ðam ánum betǽhte, ðe hig ús bigleofan tiliaþ,

    • Ælfc. T. Grn. 20, 19
      • .
the name of a bird, a cuckoo [?]
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  • Irþling

    cucuzata,

    • Wrt. Voc. 281, 14 :

    birbicariolus,

    • 281, 22
      • .

  • Ærþling

    tanticus,

    • 29, 63
      • .

  • Geác

    cuculus,

    eorþling

    birbicaliolus,

    • 63, 3-4.

  • Yrþling

    berbigarulus vel tanticus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 60
      • .

  • Erdling

    bitorius,

    • 102, 1.

  • Erþling

    enistrius,

    • 143, 57
      • .

  • In connection with the cuckoo it may be noticed that

    cucusare is given in DuCange as the verb properly used of the note of the cuckoo ; and see Grmm. D. M. 640, sqq. on the cuckoo as associated with a particular season of the year. However, in Wrt. Voc. 62, 22 the lapwing is glossed by cucurata.
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v.  ærþling eorþ-ling.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “irþling.” 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/20799.

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