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wilisc

  • adjective
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wilisc, adj.
foreign, not English
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  • Wylisc moru carrot (cf. wealh-moru) . . . Englisc

    moru parsnip.

      Lchdm. ii. 312, 16-21.

  • Wælisc

    opratanum ( = abrotanum

    , cf. súþerne),
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 46.

  • Se wælisca (heafoc) (cf. wealh-hafoc),

      Exon. Th. 332, 24; Vy. 90.

  • Ðá hæfdon ða welisce menn gewroht ǽnne castel . . . Ðá. wǽron ða wælisce men (quidam de Normannis; cf. Icel. Valskr Norman) æt-tforan mid ðam cynge, Chr. 1048; Erl. 178, 15, 24. 1a. referring to the Celts of England,

    Welsh

    :-- Be Wilisces monnes londnæfene. Gif Wylisc mon hæbbe híde londes,
      L. In. 32. ; Th. i. 122, 9.

  • Englisc . . . Wilisc,

      46; Th. i. 130, 16: L. Wg. 7; Th. i. 186, 13.

  • Náh náðer to farenne ne Wylisc man on Ænglisc land, ne Ænglisc on Wylisc ðe má,

      L. O. D. 6 ; Th. i. 354, 23.

  • Tremerin se Wylisca (Wylsca,

    v. l. ) biscop (bishop of St. David's ),

      Chr. 1055; Erl. 191, II.
    Cómon upp on Wylisce Axa .xxxvi. scypa and ðǽr ábútan hearmas dȝdon mid Gryfines fultume ðæs Wæliscan cynges, 1050; Th. i. 310, 19.

  • Welscan (Wyliscean,

      1. 36), 1052 ; Erl. 186, 17.

  • Ðæt ylce ðe man ðam Wyliscean þeófe dyde,

      L. Ath. v. 6, 3 ; Th. i. 234, 13.
  • Ðone Wyliscan cining. Chr. 1056 ; Erl. 191, 22.

  • Wíte-þeówne monnan Wyliscne,

      L. In. 54 ; Th. i. 138, 3. . xii.
    lahmen scylon riht tǽcean Wealan and Ænglan, .vi. Englisce and .vi. Wylisce, L. O. D. 3; Th. i. 354, lo.

  • Wylsce menn geslógan mycelne dǽl Englisces folces

      , Chr. 1053; Erl. 188, 9.
  • Ða Wylisce menn hí gegaderodon, and wið ða Frencisce ðe on Walon wǽron gewinn up áhófon, 1094 ; Erl. 230, 32.

  • Hengest and Æsc gefuhton wiþ Walas, and .xii. Wilisce (Wilsce,

    v. l.

    ) aldormenn ofslógon, 465 ;
      Erl. 12, 22. ¶
    the word is used of some kind of ale :-- .xii. ámbra Wilisces ealaþ, .xxx. hlúlttres, L. In. 70; Th. i. 146, 17.

  • Twá tunnan fulle hlútres aloð and cumb fulne líðes aloð and cumb fulne Welisces aloð,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i. 203, 9. .xxx.
    ómbra gódes Uuelesces aloð ðæt limpeð to . xv. mittum, 293, 13.
  • Wælsces, ii. 46, 27.

  • Geworht of Wiliscum ealað,

      Lchdm. ii. 78, 23.

  • Drence on Welscum ealað,

      136, Dó
    ealle ðás wyrta on Wylisc ealo, 120, 6.
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  • Hé on ðreó tówearp ða cneór[d]nesse, ðæt wæs wælisc (

    the race of Ham

    ; cf. Onwócon of Chame .xxx. theóda mycelra, and eác ðæt cynn wæs geseald ðám óðrum cynnum twám on heaftneád and on þeówdóm.
      2, 51),
    and on cyrlisc cynn, and on gesýðcund cynn, Anglia xi. 3, 62.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. Walahisc romanus, latinus: Icel. Valskr foreign, esp. French.]
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v. wealh.
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v.  Welisc Wælisc wealh-more.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wilisc.” 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/35767.

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