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sunor

  • noun [ feminine ]
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sunor, (-er), e; f. A herd of swine, a sounder ('That men calleth a trip of a tame swyn is called of wylde swyn a soundre; that is to say, ȝif ther be passyd v. or vi. togedres.'—Halliwell's Dict.)
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  • Wæs unfeor suner swína (suner berga, Lind.

    grex porcorum) etende. Ða deóful bédun hinae: 'send úsic in ðás sunrae (suner, Lind. gregem )

    swína.' . . . Eode all siu suner niþerweardes in sae,
      Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 8, 30-32.

  • Sunor . . . ðæt sunor,

      Lk. Skt. Lind. 8, 32, 33.
Etymology
[The word seems to be found in the Lombard sonar-pair, sonor-pahir verres qui omnes alios verres in grege batuit et vincit; see Grmm. Gesch. D. S. 483; Graff. 3, 202: and in the Frankish sonesti=duodecim equas cum admissario, aut sex scrovas cum verre, vel duodecim vaccas cum tauro, Grmm. Gesch. D. S. 383.]
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v.  suner.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sunor.” 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/29412.

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