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weoloc

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
weoloc, es; m.
A kind of shell-fish, a whelk, cockle; also the dye obtained from such fish
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  • Wioloc

    coccum,

      Txts. 55, 594.

  • Uulluc, uuluc

    involucus,

      71, 1115.

  • Weoluc, Wrt. Voc. ii. 45, 56 : cochlea, i. 65, 72, Weoloc, 281, 50: ii. 16, 29:

    conquilium,

    i.
      291, 27.

  • Wurma, weoloc

    murice,

    ii.
      56, 62.

  • Weluc murice vel

    conchyleum,

    i.
      56, 8.

  • Weoloces scyll

    conquilium,

      34, 11.

  • Fiscdeáh, weolces

    conchilii,

      Hpt. Gl. 524, 19.

  • Lytle snæglas vel weolocas

    cocleas,

      Wrt., Voc. ii. 135, 45.

  • Hér beóþ swýþe genihtsume weolocas, of ðám biþ geweorht se weolocreáda tælhg

    sunt et cochleae satis superque abundantes, quibus tinctura coccinei coloris conficitur,

      Bd. 1. 1 ; S. 473, 19.

  • Uuiolocas, uuylocas

    cocleas,

      Txts. 53, 542.

  • Wilocas,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 14, 81.
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v.  weluc weolc wulluc.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “weoloc.” 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/35127.

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