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pytt

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
pytt, es ; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§112; §259; §291; §298; §562;
a pit, hole in the ground, a grave
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  • Pyt puteus, Wrt. Voc. i. 84, 58.

    Scrobs

    ys pytt oððe díc,
      Ælfc. Gr. 9, 51 ; Zup. 66, 10.

  • Heora mód ys swá deóp swá grundleás pytt

    sepulcrum patens est guttur eorum,

      Ps. Th. 5, 10.

  • Gif hwá pytt (

    cisternam

    ) ádelfe and hine ne oferhelie and ðǽr fealle on oxa oððe assa, gilde ðæs pyttes hláford ðæra nýtena wurð,
      Ex. 21, 33-34.

  • Pytte

    baratrum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 11, 68.

  • On fúlan pyt; of ðam pytte on dene,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 77, 20.

  • On wulfputt; of ðam pytte on ða wógan ǽc,

      449, 31-32.

  • Tó wulfpytte,

      Cod. Dip. B. i. 280, 20.

  • Gelǽste man á ðone sáwelsceat æt openum pytte (cf. æt openum græfe,

      L. Eth. v. 12 ; Th. i. 308, 5), Wulfst. 118, 7.

  • Uton dón hine on ðone ealdan pytt (

    cisternam

    ),
      Gen. 37. 20.

  • Ic wæs on pytt beworpen

    in lacum missus sum,

      40, 15.

  • Hé ádylfþ ðone pytt

    lacum aperuit,

      Ps. Th. 7, 15.

  • Hwylces eówres assa befealþ on ánne pytt (

    puteum

    ),
      Lk. Skt. 14, 5.

  • Hé hét ádelfan ǽnne gehwǽdne pytt,

      Homl. Th. ii. 02, 2.

  • On hiere bryne gemulton ealle ða onlícnessa tógædere and on pyttas besuncan,

      Ors. 5, 2 ; Swt. 216, 3.
a pit (as in pitted with small-pox)
: Pyt ful wyrmses serpedo (cf. serpedo a mesylle,
    224, 9 : a tetere, 267, 48), Wrt. Voc. i. 20, 4.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. pfuzzi, pfuzza puteus, cisterna : Ger. pfütze: Icel. pyttr. From Latin puteus.]
Similar entries
v. gang-, hor-, lám-, mór-, rysc-, wæter-pytt, and next word.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “pytt.” 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/25422.

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