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wilisc

  • adjective
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wilisc, adj.
foreign, not English
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  • Wylisc moru carrot (cf. wealh-moru) . . . Englisc

    moru parsnip.

    • Lchdm. ii. 312, 16-21.

  • Wælisc

    opratanum ( = abrotanum

    , cf. súþerne),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 46.

  • Se wælisca (heafoc) (cf. wealh-hafoc),

    • Exon. Th. 332, 24; Vy. 90.

  • Ðá hæfdon ða welisce menn gewroht ǽnne castel . . . Ðá. wǽron ða wælisce men (quidam de Normannis; cf. Icel. Valskr Norman) æt-tforan mid ðam cynge, Chr. 1048; Erl. 178, 15, 24. 1a. referring to the Celts of England, Welsh:-- Be Wilisces monnes londnæfene. Gif Wylisc mon hæbbe híde londes,

    • L. In. 32.
      • ;
    • Th. i. 122, 9.

  • Englisc . . . Wilisc,

    • 46
      • ;
    • Th. i. 130, 16
      • :
    • L. Wg. 7
      • ;
    • Th. i. 186, 13.

  • Náh náðer to farenne ne Wylisc man on Ænglisc land, ne Ænglisc on Wylisc ðe má,

    • L. O. D. 6
      • ;
    • Th. i. 354, 23.

  • Tremerin se Wylisca (Wylsca,

    v. l. ) biscop (bishop of St. David's ),

    • Chr. 1055; Erl. 191, II.
    Cómon upp on Wylisce Axa .xxxvi. scypa and ðǽr ábútan hearmas dȝdon mid Gryfines fultume ðæs Wæliscan cynges,
    • 1050
      • ;
    • Th. i. 310, 19.

  • Welscan (Wyliscean,

    • 1. 36), 1052 ; Erl. 186, 17.

  • Ðæt ylce ðe man ðam Wyliscean þeófe dyde,

    • L. Ath. v. 6, 3
      • ;
    • Th. i. 234, 13.

  • Ðone Wyliscan cining.

    • Chr. 1056 ; Erl. 191, 22.

  • Wíte-þeówne monnan Wyliscne,

    • L. In. 54
      • ;
    • Th. i. 138, 3. . xii.
    lahmen scylon riht tǽcean Wealan and Ænglan, .vi. Englisce and .vi. Wylisce,
    • L. O. D. 3
      • ;
    • Th. i. 354, lo.

  • Wylsce menn geslógan mycelne dǽl Englisces folces

    • Chr. 1053; Erl. 188, 9.

  • Ða Wylisce menn hí gegaderodon, and wið ða Frencisce ðe on Walon wǽron gewinn up áhófon,

    • 1094 ; Erl. 230, 32.

  • Hengest and Æsc gefuhton wiþ Walas, and .xii. Wilisce (Wilsce,

    v. l.

    ) aldormenn ofslógon, 465 ;
    • Erl. 12, 22. ¶
    the word is used of some kind of ale :-- .xii. ámbra Wilisces ealaþ, .xxx. hlúlttres,
    • L. In. 70
      • ;
    • Th. i. 146, 17.

  • Twá tunnan fulle hlútres aloð and cumb fulne líðes aloð and cumb fulne Welisces aloð,

    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i. 203, 9. .xxx.
    ómbra gódes Uuelesces aloð ðæt limpeð to . xv. mittum,
    • 293, 13.

  • Wælsces,

    • ii. 46, 27.

  • Geworht of Wiliscum ealað,

    • Lchdm. ii. 78, 23.

  • Drence on Welscum ealað,

    • 136, Dó
    ealle ðás wyrta on Wylisc ealo,
    • 120, 6.
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  • Hé on ðreó tówearp ða cneór[d]nesse, ðæt wæs wælisc (

    the race of Ham

    ; cf. Onwócon of Chame .xxx. theóda mycelra, and eác ðæt cynn wæs geseald ðám óðrum cynnum twám on heaftneád and on þeówdóm.
    • 2, 51),
    and on cyrlisc cynn, and on gesýðcund cynn,
    • Anglia xi. 3, 62.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. Walahisc romanus, latinus
:
Icel. Valskr foreign, esp. French
.]
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v. wealh.
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v.  Wælisc wealh-more Welisc.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wilisc.” 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/35767.

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