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widuwe

  • noun [ feminine ]
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widuwe, widewe, weoduwe, weodewe, wuduwe, wudewe, wydewe, widwe, an; f. A widow, v. wíf, <b>III a</b>
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  • Wudewe (wuduwe, v.l.: widuwe, Rush. : widiua, Lind.)

    vidua,

      Lk. Skt. 18, 3.

  • Widewe,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 73, 15.

  • Weodewe,

      Gen. 38, 11.

  • Wydewe (wudewe,

      Ps. Spl. : weoduwa, Ps. Lamb.: widwe, Ps. Surt.), Ps. Th. 108, 9.

  • Widwe,

      Lk. Skt. Rush. 2, 37 : 18, 5.

  • Anna seó hálige wuduwa,

      Lchdm. iii. 428, 19.

  • Paula wæs gehálgod wydewe,

      Homl. Th. i. 436, 9: Shrn. 112, 31.

  • Sí ǽlc wydewe (wuduwe,

    v.l.

    ) on Godes griðe and on ðæs cynges; and sitte ǽlc .xii. mónað werleás; ceóse syþþan ðæt heó sylf wille,
      L. Eth. v. 21; Th. i. 310, 1.

  • Be wudewan . . . Sitte ǽlc wuduwe werleás twelf mónað . . . Ne hádige man ǽfre wudewan tó hrædlíce. And gelǽsté ǽlc wuduwe ða heregeatu binnan twelf mónðum,

      L. C. S. 74; Th. i. 416, 3-17.

  • Geong wuduwe mót eft ceorlian æfter hire weres forðsíðe,

      L. Ælfc. P. 43 ; Th. ii. 382, 32.

  • Mund ðære betstan widuwan eorlcundre,

      L. Ethb. 75; Th. i. 20, 10.

  • Ðínes wuduwan hádes

    viduitatis tuae,

      Past. 31; Swt. 207, 12.

  • Wudewan gierela

    viduitatis theristrum

    (Ald. 76),
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 46.

  • Wíf gif hire forman, were forðsíð gebyrige, be leáfe heó nime óðerne, gif heó ðæt ceósan wyle ; and gif heó ðone oferbýt, wunige heó á syððan on wndewan háde,

      L. Ecg. P. ii. 20; Th. ii. 190, 6.

  • Iudith þurhwunode on hire wudewan háde,

      Homl. Ass. 114, 399.

  • Hig ne móston ná wífian on nánre wuduwan, L. Ælfc. P. 39 ;

    Th. ii.

      380, 16.

  • Búton earmre wudewan,

      L. Ath. v. 2; Th. i. 230, 19.

  • Gif man widuwan unágne genimeþ,

      L. Ethb. 76; Th. i. 20, 13.

  • Gif hwá wydewan nýdnǽme, gebéte ðæt deópe,

      L. Eth. vi. 39; Th. i. 324, 25.

  • Wæs gesett ðæt se ðe widewan náme, oððe áworpen wíf, ðæt hé ne wurde uǽfre syððan to nánum háde genumen,

      L. Ælfc. C. 8; Th. ii. 346, 13.

  • Heora widwan (wudwan,

      Ps. Spl.), Ps. Th. 77, 64.

  • Fǽmnan and wuduwan,

      Cd. Th. 121, 14; Gen. 2010.

  • Wydywyna (wudewena,

    v.l.:

    widuena,
      Lind.: widwa, Rush.) hús, Lk. Skt. 20, 47.

  • Weodewena (widwena,

      Ps. Surt.), Ps. Spl. 67, 5.

  • Widewum,

      Deut. 27, 19.

  • Weodewum,

      Ps. Th. 145, 8.

  • Wydewum,

      67, 5 : Blickl. Homl. 45, 1.

  • Ða wuduwan (wydewan, wydwan,

    v.ll.

    ),
      L. Alf. 34; Th. i. 52, 16.

  • Earme wydewan,

      Cd. Th. 128, 27; Gen. 2133.
Etymology
[Goth. widuwó: O. Sax. widowa: O. Frs. widwe: O. H. Ger. witawa (-ewa, -uwa, -wa).]
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v.  weodewe weoduwe.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “widuwe.” 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/35579.

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