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lendenu

  • noun [ neuter ]
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lendenu, pl.
The loins, reins
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  • Lendenu

    renes vel lumbi,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 74
      • ;
    • Som. 71, 53
      • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 44, 36
      • .

  • Lændenu

    lumbi,

    • 65, 26
      • .

  • Lendena

    renes,

    • 71, 41
      • .

  • Laendino

    rien,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 119, 17
      • .

  • Lendene

    renes,

    • Ps. Spl. T. 15. 7
      • .

  • Beón eówer lendena ymbgyrde ... On ðám ymbgyrdum lendenum is se mægþhád tó understandenne

    let your loins be girded ... By the girded loins virginity is to be understood,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 564, 25
      • .

  • Beóþ eówre lændenæ ymbgirde ... on ðá lendenum is getácnad swá swá wé leorniaþ on bócum seó fúle gálnes,

    • L. Ælfc. P. 13-14
      • ;
    • Th. ii. 368, 32-35
      • .

  • Begyrdaþ eówer lendenu

    renes vestros accingetis,

    • Ex. 12, 11
      • :
    • Homl. Th. ii. 264, 8
      • .

  • Se Johannes hæfde fellenne gyrdel embe hys lendenu

    ipse Joannes habebat zonam pelliciam circa lumbos ejus,

    • Mt. Kmbl. 3, 4
      • .
  • [Cf. O. L. Ger. lenda; f. ren: Icel. lend; f: O. H. Ger. lenti: f: Ger. lende; f.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “lendenu.” 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/21375.

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