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Winter-fylleþ

  • noun
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Winter-fylleþ, the month of October. Bede, speaking of the months, says: Antiqui Anglorum populi . . . annum totum in duo tempora, hiemis et aestatis dispertiebant, sex menses . . . aestati tribuendo, sex reliquos hiemi; unde et mensem, quo hiemalia tempora incipiebant, Wintirfyllith appellabant, composite nomine ab hieme et plenilunio, quia videlicet a plenilunio ejusdem mensis hiems sortiretur initium . . . Wintirfyllith potest dici compositio novo nomine hiemi pleniuni. Cf. winter, <b>I
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  • Se teóða mónð, October, Winterfylleð, swá hine cíg[a]ð ígbuende, Engle and Seaxe,

      Menol. Fox 365; Men. 184.
  • Ðone teóðan mónð mon nemneþ on Léden Octember, and on úre geðeóde Winterfylleð,

      Shrn. 136, 31: 143, 32.
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