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telga

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
telga, an; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§401;
A branch, bough,
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  • Telge

    ramus,

      Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 24, 32: Mk. Skt. Lind. 13, 28.

  • Telgan

    fronde,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 33, 60.

  • Telgan

    virgultum,

    i.
      39, 17.

  • Unberende telgan

    spadones,

      38, 8.

  • Telgan gehladene,

      Exon. Th. 202, 28; Ph. 76.

  • Telgu

    rami,

      Mk. Skt. Rush. 13, 28.

  • Telgena

    palmitum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 66, 34.

  • Telgum gescafenum

    corticibus,

      Hpt. Gl. 412, 41.

  • Balzamum of ðæra treówa telgan (

    ramis

    ) weól,
      Nar. 26, 21.

  • Blǽda on treówes telgum,

      Cd. Th. 55, 10; Gen. 892: 88, 24; Gen. 1470: Exon. Th. 210, 19; Ph. 188.

  • Beorc byþ on telgum wlitig, Runic pm. Kmbl. 342,

      30; Rún. 18: Ps. Th. 57, 8: 103, 16.

  • Telgo frondes, Mk. Skt. Lind. 11, 8:

    ramos,

      4, 32.

  • Genim ðysse wyrte (yarrow) telgan, Lchdm. i. 198, 12 note. ¶ In the following passage Kemble and Leo take the word as meaning a strip of land (fallow), but as such a strip of land if fallow one year would not be so the next, its designation as the fallow strip would hardly serve the purpose of marking a boundary.

    Telga

    might rather refer to a branch distinguishable from the loss of its bark :-- Andlang strǽte on ðone calewan telgan,
      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i. 258, 7.
  • See iii. xxxix, and Leo, Place Names, p. 66.
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  • Hé bær ða wǽtan ðære uncyste in ðæm telgan, ðone hé geteáh ǽr of ðan wyrtruman,

      Bd. 1, 27; M. 82, 14.

  • Wr-ohtes telgan,

      Cd. Th. 61, 3; Gen. 991.

  • Ealle ða telgan ðú gebrǽddest

    extendisti palmites ejus,

      Ps. Th. 79, 11.

  • Telgo míno

    ramos meos,

      Rtl. 68, 32.
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v. wudu-telga; telgor, telgra.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “telga.” 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/30294.

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