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weorc-dæg

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
weorc-dæg, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§617;
A work-day, any day, not a ' freólstíd, ' of the week but Sunday
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  • Weorcdæg

    feria,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 148, 4.

  • Sealmas tó weorcdæge

    (ad feriam)

    gebyrigende, Anglia xiii.
      402, 532.

  • Ðam syxtan weorcdæge

    sexta feria,

      404, 563.

  • Worcdæge,

      389, 348.

  • Búton drihten*-*lícum and freólsum háligra weorcdagas þeáwe gewunelícum beón haldene

    exceptis dominicis et festiuitatibus sanctorum fertales more solito teneantur,

      396, 451.

  • Freólsdæg festivitas, weorcdagas

    fasti.

      Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 14.

  • Hú dægrédsangas on weorcdagum

    (privatis diebus)

    tó healdenne sýn (v. the whole chapter, and cf. the title of the previous one: Hú dægréd*-*sangas on freólstídum tó healdenne sýn),
      R. Ben. 37, 4, 5.
Etymology
[ȝif hit is werkedei . . . , ȝif hit is halidei . . . , A. R. 20, 7. ȝure wuke gifeþþ ȝuw sexe werrkedaȝhess, but iff þatt aniȝ messedaȝȝ . . . , Orm. 11315. Werkday feria, Prompt. Parv. 522. Icel. verk-dagr a work-day.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “weorc-dæg.” 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/35139.

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