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sigel-hweorfa

  • noun [ masculine ]
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sigel-hweorfa, an ; m. A plant-name, a word equivalent in meaning to the Greek
heliotrope. It is found as the representative of foreign words in the following
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  • Sigelhweorfa

    heliotropus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 68, 5, 80 : Lchdm. iii. 302, col. 1.
  • Sigelhuerpha eliotropia, id. Sigelhueorua nimphea, 304, col. 1 :

    solsequia,

      305, col. 1.
  • Sigelwearfa. Ðeós wyrt ðe Grécas heliotropus, and Rómáne

    uertamnum

    nemnaþ, and eác Angle sigelhweorfa hátaþ,
      Lchdm. i. 152, 21.
  • Sigilhweorfa

    eliotropus,

      254, 11.
  • In the following no foreign equivalent is given

    Sigelhweorfa, ii. 94, 25 : iii. 24, 4.

  • Nim nioþoweardne sigelhweorfan,

      326, 17.
  • See Lchdm. ii. 404, col. 2.
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v.  -hweorfa.
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  • sigel-hweorfa, n.