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wifel

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
wifel, es; m.
A weevil, a beetle
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  • Wibl

    panpila,

      Txts. 85, 1498.
  • Wifel

    papila,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 67, 59.
  • Wibil, uuibil

    cantarus,

      Txts. 49, 398.
  • Wifel,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 13, 47.
  • Wifel cantarus (animal), 128, 11:

    scarebius,

    i.
      281, 43.
  • Is ðæs gores sunu gonge hrædra, ðone wé wifel nemnaþ,

      Exon. Th. 426, 13; Rä 41, 73.
  • Æfter ðam wifele. Lchdm. ii. 320, 2.
  • Weorp ofer bæc ðone wifel (tordwifel, l. 15) on wege; beheald ðæt ðú ne lócige æfter,

      318, 19. ¶
    the word seems to occur in several local names, v. Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 352.
Etymology
[Wevyl, wyvyl or malte boode (bowde) gurgulio, Prompt. Parv. 523 and 531. O. L. Ger. gold-uuivil cicendela: O. H. Ger. wibil scarabaeus, cantarus: Ger. wiebel; Icel. tord-yfill.]
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v. scearn-, tord-wifel.
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v.  wibil.
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