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wád

  • noun [ neuter ]
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wád, es; n.
Woad, a plant much used for dyeing, which circumstance may account for the appearance of the word as a gloss to some of the following Latin words
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  • Ðis wád

    hic sandyx,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 9, 69
      • ;
    • Zup. 72, 14.

  • Wyrt oððe wád

    sandix (the passage to which this gloss belongs is

    • Vergil Eclogae, iv. 45, quoted by Aldhelm
    ),

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 33.

  • Wád

    sandix,

    • i. 32, 6: 68, 70: 79, 42.

  • Waad

    fucus,

    • 32, 7.

  • Dolhsealf. Genim wádes croppan,

    • Lchdm. ii. 94, 11.

  • Of wáde ł hǽwenre deáge (cf. wáde ex hyacinthoiacincto,

    • Anglia xiii. 29, 52.
    Cf.
    O. H. Ger. wenín iacinctus
    ),

    • Hpt. Gl. 431, 26.

  • Wið bryne, wád wyl on buteran, smire mid,

    • Lchdm. ii. 132, 1, and see i.174, 1-5.

  • Man mæg on hærfeste wád spittan,

    • Anglia ix. 261, 16.
the growth of woad seems marked by the occurrence of the word in such forms as wád-beorh, wád-denu, wád-lond in charters
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  • Of ðære díc on wádbeorgas; of wádbeorgan,

    • Cod. Dip, Kmbl., iii. 77, 15.

  • Æt wádbeorhe,

    • 82, 29.

  • On wádbeorh; of wádbeorhge,

    • 232, 36.

  • On wáddene; andlong wáddene,

    • vi. 137, 12.

  • Ðæt wádlond,

    • iii. 390, 17: 381, 5.
Etymology
[
O. Frs. wéd
:
O. H. Ger. weit sandix
.]
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v.  waad.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wád.” 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/34202.

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