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wermód

  • noun [ masculine ]
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wermód, es; m.
Wormwood
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  • Wermód (uuermód, uermódae)

    absinthium,

      Txts. 37, 35: Wrt. Voc. ii. 4, 11: i. 79, 29.

  • Weremód,

      67, 23.

  • Ic eom wráþre ðonne wermód sý,

      Exon. Th. 425, 23; Rä. 41, 60.

  • Wermód. Ðeós wyrt ðe man

    absinthium

    and óþrum naman wermód nemneþ,
      Lchdm. i. 216, 17.
  • Se fúla wermód, ii. 312, 18.

  • Dríges wermódes blóstman,

      250, 3.

  • Gif hit sié sumor, dó wermódes sǽdes dust tó . . . gif hit sié winter, ne þearft þú ðone wermód tó dón,

      180, 27.

  • Grénne wermód oððe drígne,

      206, 24: 296, 13.

  • Wring on wermód wearmne,

      310, 10.

  • Nim wermód nioþoweardne,

      326, 10.
  • Wærmód, i. 206, 10.

  • Wyrmód, iii. 50,

      17, 20.

  • Súþerne wermód (

    artemisia abrotanon

    ), ii.
      34, 27: 178, 26.

  • Ðone súþernan wermód, ðæt is prutene, and óþerne wermód,

      236, 20.
  • Twégra cynna wermód, i. 374, 6.
  • Wyrmód, iii. 4, 9.

  • Wermód drincan sace hefige getácnaþ

    to drink wormwood in a dream betokens grievous strife,

      198, 24.
Etymology
[Wermod absinthium, Wülck. Gl. 554, 11 (13th cent.): 560, 12 (15th cent.). Wormode, 645, 35 (15th cent.). Wormwod, 711, 24 (15th cent.). Wick. wermod: Pall. wermode: O. H. Ger. wermuota (weri-) absinthium: O. L. Ger. wermuode.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wermód.” 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/35400.

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