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girela

  • noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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Grammar
girela, gierela, am; m.: <b>girelu,</b> e; f.
Take here gerela in Dict., and add:
in a collective sense,
attire, apparel, clothing, garments
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  • Ðá gimmas . . . scoldon scínan on ðæs hiéhstan sácerdes hrægle . . . ðonne ne beóð hira gimmas on ðǽm gerénum ðæs biscepes gierelan,

      Past. 135, 12.

  • On lǽwedum háde and on lǽwedum girelan,

      411, 35.

  • Macheus his ágenne sunu gemétte mid purpurum gegieredne on biscepháde. Hé hiene for þǽm girelan gebealg, and hiene hét áhón,

      Ors. 4, 4; S. 164, 32.

  • Gyrlan

    cultu,

      An. Ox. 1194.

  • Gyrle

    habitu,

    3364.

  • Hét hé míne geféran ꝥ hié ealne heora gerelan him of ádydon

    ponere amicos uestes imperauit,

      Nar. 27, 13.
a garment, robe
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  • Wudewan gierela theristotedes (sumpto viduitatis

    theristro,

      Ald. 76, 8), Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 46.

  • Gyrlan

    stola,

      Germ. 397, 10.

  • God reáfian lǽteð eówere dohtra heora gyrla and tó oferrancra heáfodgewǽda,

      Wlfst. 45, 25.

  • Ðá ðe Críste folgiað on hwítum gyrlum,

      Hml. Th. i. 88, 34.

  • Gierelum gielplicum,

      Gú. 390.

  • Ðá ðe mid hnescum gerelum (gyrlum, W. S.) gescirped biðon

    qui mollibus vestiuntur,

      Mt. L. 11, 8. v.
    cyne-girela, cyne-girelu, cyning-girela, cyning-girelu, godweb-girela, godweb-girelu, hróþ-girela, hróþ-girelu, mæsse-girela, mæsse-girelu, weorold-girela, weorold-girelu.
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v.  gyrla gerela.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “girela.” 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/50824.

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