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weardere

  • noun [ masculine ]
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weardere, es; m.
One who holds a country, an inhabitant
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  • Columba com tó Pyhtum; ðæt synd wærteras be norðum mórum

    Columba came to the Picts; they are the people who hold the country to the north of the hills (cf. Bd. 3, 4: Venit Columba Brittaniam praedicaturus verbum Dei provinciis Septentrionalium Pictorum, hoc est, eis quae arduis atque horrentibus montium jugis ab Australibus eorum sunt regionibus sequestratae),

      Chr. 565; Erl. 16, 37.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. wartari custos,]
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v. weardian, IV.
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v.  wærtere.
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