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teáh

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
teáh, tǽh, téh, tíh (-g); gen. teáge; f.
a tie, band
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  • Teág, taeg

    sceda.

    • Txts. 98, 964.

  • Teáh,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 289, 36.

  • Lege ðé his teáge an sweoran.

    • Lchdm. iii. 42, 13.

  • Hé cyning gebond fýrnum teágum,

    • Exon. Th. 46, 7;
    • Cri. 733.

  • Liðewácum tagum (teágum?, tánum?, or tógum?

    as an alternative gloss to lentis. v.

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    tóh
    ) (alii) lentis viminibus (caedentes),

    • Hpt. Gl. 514, 70.
v.
a case, coffer, casket, box
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  • Cest vel earc cistella, tǽg mozytia vel

    arcula,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 16. 38.

  • Taeg

    mantega ( = mantica? ),

    • Txts. 35, 19: 77, 1300.

  • Tíg,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 55, 57.

  • Hí ðás hálgan martyrrace on ánum leádenum tabulan mid stafon ágrófon, and ðæt gewrit mid twám inseglum on ánre teáge geinsegledon,

    • Homl. Skt. i. 23, 344.

  • Gemétton hí áne teáge, seó wæs geinsæglod mid twám insæglum ... Man bær út ða teáge ... Ðá féng se portgeréfa tó ðære tége and hí sóna unhlidode,

    • 23, 755-765.

  • Búton hit ( the stolen property ) under ðæs wífes cǽglocan gebroht wǽre ... ðæt is hire hordern and hire cyste and hire tége,

    • L. C. S. 77;
    • Th. i. 418, 22.

  • Tégum, fódrum

    tepis ( = thecis ),

    • Txts. 101, 2010.
an enclosure, a close (cf. Icel. teigr (teygr?) a close, paddock)
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  • Hujus telluris termini ... et aquilone meara-teág ( =

    horses' close;

    cf.
    • horsa croft, iii. 464, 3
      • ),
    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i. 248, 12.

  • Mansionem et clausnlam, quam Angli dicunt teáge, que pertinet ad predictam mansionem,

    • Chart. Th. 467, 19.

  • Circumcincta est ... a meritie brómteágh,

    • ii. 49, 20.
Etymology
[Teien togadere mid guldene teȝen. Laym. 20998. A teiȝ-doggue þat is in strongue teiȝe (rimes with ei1079;e (eye) ), L. S. 308, 301, He huld an hache harde wiþ teis, Jos. 504.
Icel. taug
; f. a rope, string.]
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lád-, racent-, sweor-, web-teáh.
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v.  tǽg tágum teág tége.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “teáh.” 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/30231.

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