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heáp-mælum

  • adverb
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Grammar
heáp-mælum, adv.
Wright's OE grammar
§557;
In heaps, by troops, bands, companies, flocks
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  • Telle ðú and Aaron heápmǽlum

    thou and Aaron shalt number them by their armies,

      Num. 1, 3.

  • Ne wæs ðá ylding tó ðon ðæt hí heápmǽlum, cóman máran weorod of ðám þeódum ðe wé ǽr gemynegodon

    non mora ergo confluentibus certatim in insulam gentium memoratarum catervis,

      Bd. 1, 15; S. 483. 31.

  • Ða dumban niétenu hie hie gadriaþ heápmǽlum and hie ætsomne fédaþ

    gregatim animalia bruta pascuntur,

      Past. 46, 4; Swt. 349, 23.

  • Hý him heápmǽlum sylfe on hand eodon

    they flocked to surrender to him,

      Ors. 4, 5; Bos. 83, 8.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. huufmalum catervatim.]
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “heáp-mælum.” 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/18467.

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