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þoden

  • noun [ masculine ]
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þoden, es; m.
A violent wind, a whirlwind; also, a whirlpool; turbo
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  • Þoden alcanus (l. altanus), Wrt. Voc. ii. 100, 3:

    altanus,

    i.
      17, 34.

  • Ðoden

    turbo,

      Ælfc. Gr. 9, 3; Zup. 37, 10.

  • Þoden ða nán ne tócwíse oþþe worigende tówurpon windas

    turbo quam nullus quatit aut vagantes diruunt venti,

      Hymn. Surt. 142, 26.

  • Cumendum swá þoden tó tóstæncanne mé

    venientibus ut turbo ad dispergendum me,

      Cant. Ab. 14.

  • Ðonne sió geornfulnes eorðlícra ðinga ábisgaþ ðæt ondgit and áblent ðæs módes eágan mid ðære costunge ðæm folce, suǽ suǽ dust déð ðæs líchoman eágan on sumera mid ðodene (ðodne, Hatt. MS.)

    dum pastoris sensus terrena studio occupant, vento tentationis impulses ecclesiae oculos pulvis caecat,

      Past. 18; Swt. 128, 17.

  • Hér wǽron réðe forebécna cumen ofer Norðhymbra land ... ðæt wǽron orméte þodenas and lígrescas,

      Chr. 793; Th. 101, 5, col. 1.
  • Þurh ðæs windes blǽs, ðe swýðlíce ða heánnyssa ðæs roderes scecð mid his þodenum, Anglia viii. 320, 34.

  • Lageflódum þodenum

    ceruleis turbinibus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 130, 38. [Swa þode
Etymology
[þodde, 2nd MS.) on felde þenne he þat dust heȝe aȝiueð from þere eorðe, Laym. 27645.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “þoden.” 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/31909.

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