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filmen

  • noun [ masculinefeminineneuter ]
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Grammar
filmen, The gender varies, with meaning foreskin it is masc. or neut., otherwise fem.
Wright's OE grammar
§600;
Take here examples given in Dict. under fylmen.
of animal material,
skin, membrane, scale
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  • Filmen (film̃ MS.)

    omentum, centipillium,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 130, 46.

  • Se milte hæfð þynne filmene . . . and sió filmen biþ þeccende þá wambe,

    • Lch. ii. 242, 14-17
      • .

  • Be þæs miltes filmene,

    • 166, 13
      • .

  • Filmena

    membra[na]rum (laterna membranarumtenui velamine facta,

    • Aid. 142, 6
      • ),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 89, 51
      • :
    • 57, 4
      • .

  • On þǽre lifre on þám filmenum,

    • Lch. ii. 204, 18, 5
      • .

  • prié filmenna on bridda wambum,

    • 228, 27.
of vegetable,
skin, shell, husk:
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  • Fylmenum

    cittis, i. tenuis pellis inter grana,

    • An. Ox. 464
      • .

  • Fylminum,

    • ii. 63.

  • Filmenum,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 75, 75
      • .

  • Vilmenum, æpelscealum ymb ðá cyrnlu,

    • 17, 69.
    [These four are glosses on: Mala punica cittis granisque rubentibus referta, Aid. 8, 15.]
a crack (?)
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  • Filmena oþþe cinena

    rimarum (capisterium rimarum fragmine ruptum,

    • Aid. 159, 29
      • ),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 92, 5
      • .
Etymology
[
O. Frs. filmene; f. skin.
]
Similar entries
v. felma.
Linked entries
v.  fylmen film.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “filmen.” 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/44977.

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  • filmen, n.

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