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spillan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
spillan, p. de
Wright's OE grammar
§530;
To destroy
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  • Suá huelc soecaþ sáuel his hál gewyrca spilleþ hiá (

    perdet illam

    ),
      Lk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 17, 33: Jn. Skt. Rush. 12, 25.

  • Ðeóf ne cymeþ búta ðætte [hé] spilleþ (

    perdat

    ),
      10, 10.

  • Ne spildic ł ne losade

    non perdidi,

      Lind. 18, 9.

  • Eal ðæt God spilde

    God destroyed it all,

      Cd. Th. 154, 22; Gen. 2559.

  • Sumne man tó Lundene lǽdde, and ðǽr spilde,

      Chr. 1096; Erl. 233, 9.

  • Ðætte ne ic losige ł ic ne spillo

    ut non perdam,

      Jn. Skt. Lind. 6, 39.

  • Ðætte ðú spilla

    ut dissipes,

      Rtl. 55, 22.

  • Ne þurfe wé ús spillan

    we need not destroy one another,

      Byrht. Th. 132, 50; By. 34.

  • Sóhton hine tó spillanne

    quaerebant eum perdere.

      Jn. Skt. Lind. Rush. 10, 39.

  • Swil[g]ra, gliw[e]ra [in margin spil-lendra (spiliendra ?); but see onspillendra parasitorum, Anglia xiii. 28, 29]

    parasitorum,

      Hpt. Gl. 422, 37.
Etymology
[Wæron six men spilde of here ægon, Chr. 1124; Erl. 253, 14. Ȝf ȝe hit willed ich hine uulle spillen, Laym. 880. Unleoden spilden al his þeoden, 28863. Speche þu maht spillen, ant ne speden nawiht, Jul. 24, 14. Late ye nouth mi bodi spille, Hayel. 2422. To spille hem þat ben gulty, Piers P. 19, 298. Spyllyn̄ or de-stroyyn̄ confundo, Prompt. Parv. 469. Icel. spilla to destroy, spoil.]
Similar entries
v. for-, ge-spillan ; spildan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “spillan.” 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/28491.

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