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þeorf

  • adjective
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þeorf, adj.
unleavened, used substantively,
unleavened bread
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of milk, fresh (as opposed to sour? cf.
Icel. þjarfr, of water, fresh as opposed to salt), skim (? so Cockayne)
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Etymology
[Bræd all þeorrf wiþþutenn berrme, Orm. 997. Þerue kakeȝ, Allit. Pms. 57, 635, Þerf bred, Mand. 19, 1. Of þerf brede de azymo pane, Trev. v. 9, 6: Wick. Gen. 19, 3. Therf, not sowyryd azimus, Prompt. Parv. 490. A tharf bred panis siliginus, sigalinus, Wrt. Voc. i. 198, 8, 9. O. H. Ger. derb brót azymus: Icel. þjarfr unleavened; fresh (water).]
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v.  þærf þorof.
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