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wíc-stów

  • noun [ feminine ]
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wíc-stów, e ; f.
a dwelling-place
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  • Ðis ða wyrta sind, ða se wilda fugel somnaþ tó his wícstówe, dǽr hé nest gewyrceþ,

      Exon. Th. 230, 6; Ph. 468.

  • Ðá hé geseah ða wícstówa ðara ryhtwísena Israhéla

    justorum tabernacula respiciens.

      Past. 54; Swt. 423, 13.
a camp, an encampment; both singular and plural forms are used to translate
castra
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  • Hé nemde ðære stówe naman Manaim, ðæt is wícstów (

    castra

    ),
      Gen. 32, 2.

  • Ðá hét ic ða fyrd wícian; wæs seó wícstów on lengo xxes furlonga long,

      Nar. 4, 15.

  • Hé of ðære wícstówe áfór,

      Ors. 2, 4; Swt. 76, 13.

  • Bútan ðære wícstówe

    extra castra,

      Lev. 4, 21: 8, 17: Num. 11, 32: 12, 15; Ex. 33, 11.

  • Bútan híra wícstówe,

      33, 7.

  • Bútan wícstówe,

      Lev. 10, 4.

  • Ceósaþ eów wícstówe

    castra ponetis,

      Ex. 14, 2.

  • On ðǽm wícstówum

    in castris Persarum,

      Ors. 3, 9; Swt. 126, 5.

  • Ǽr hé ða wícstówa bereáfian mehte,

      Swt. 128, 9.

  • Siþþan hé wícstówa náme,

      2, 4; Swt. 76, 10: Num. 11, 31.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wíc-stów.” 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/35527.

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