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hyrst

  • noun [ masculine ]
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hyrst, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§390;
A hurst, copse, wood. The word occurs most frequently in compounds, e.g. hnut-hyrst, æsc-hyrst, etc. , and is still found as hurst in names of places.
    See
  • Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iii. xxxii
  • , and
  • Leo's Anglo-Saxon Names. p. 107
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  • In hyrst sciofingden,

    • Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. i. 273, 6
    • .
  • Wermód hér on hyrstum heasewe standeþ

    wormwood stands dusky here in the woods [Grein takeshyrstum under the previous word],

    • Exon. 111 a
    • ;
    • Th. 425, 24
    • ;
    • Rä. 41, 61. v. horst, hurst
    • ,
    • Grff. iv. 1042
    • .
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  • hyrst, n.