west
- adjective
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Rómána onweald, se is mǽst and westmest,
- Ors. 6, 1; Swt. 252, 19.
- On ðæm síþmestan onwalde and on ðæm westemestan. Swt. 254, 2.
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Ðis sindon ðæs landes gemǽra ðe gebyriaþ into ðære westmestan híde,
- Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 262, 18.
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On ðone westmestan mylengear . . . eft on ðæm westemestan mylengeare, Cod. Dip. B. ii. 305, 23-30. ¶ westan in combination with prepositions, governing dative or adverbial :-- Be-westan Hai
ab oriente habeas Hai,
- Gen. 12, 8.
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Ðám folcum ðe eardiaþ be-westan Sæferne
eis populis qui ultra amnem Sabrinam ad occidentem habitant,
- Bd. 5, 23; S. 646, 21.
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Be-westan Sealwuda,
- Chr. 894; Erl. 92, 19 : 709; Erl. 42, 28: Ors. 1, 1 ; Swt. 22, 7, 12, 26.
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Ðonne heóld man fyrde be-westan (cf. wonyng fer by weste,
- Chauc. Prol. 388), Chr. 1010; Erl. 144, 5.
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On-westan ðære cyrican
ad occidentalem ecclesiae partem
,- Bd. 3, 17; S. 543, 29.
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Is on-westan medmycel duru,
- Blickl. Homl. 127, 8.
Bosworth, Joseph. “west.” 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/35432.
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