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Arewe

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
Arewe, Arwe, an; f. [arewe arrow]
Wright's OE grammar
§404;
ARROW, the name of a river in several counties, called so either from its swiftness or straightness, also the Orwell; fluvii nomen
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  • Se here gewende ðá fram Lundene, mid hyra scypum, into Arewan [MS. Laud. Arwan]

    the army [of the Danes] went then from London, with their ships, into the river Orwell [in Suffolk],

    • Chr. 1016; Erl. 157, 14
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Gibson says of Orwell,—Hunc suspicor antiquitus fuisse pronunciatum Arwel, tum quod Saxonicum A sequentibus sæculis transiit in O, tum etiam quod oppidum est ad ejus ripam situm, Arwerton dictum; accedit quod Harewich ad oram hujus fluminis, olim Arwic, non ut conjectat Camd. Herewic, dici posset,
  • Gib. Chr. Explicatio 13, col. 1
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Bosworth, Joseph. “Arewe.” 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/2101.

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