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wlǽta

  • noun [ masculine ]
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wlǽta, wlǽtta, an; m.
nausea, loathing
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  • Wið spiwðan and wlǽttan,

      Lchdm. i. 358, 24.

  • Wiþ wlǽttan, ðam men ðe hine ne lyst his metes ne líþes,

      ii. 62, 15.

  • Wiþ nnluste and wlǽttan ðe of magan cymð,

      184, 5.

  • Wlǽtan,

      158, 12.

  • Gif hwá on scipe wlǽttan þolige,

      i. 206, 9.

  • Ðone wlǽttan ðæs magan,

      204, 20.

  • Ne yrne hé, ðe læs hé mid ðæs rynes éðgunge hwylcne wleáttan (wlǽttan, v. l. ) and sogeðan on his heortan ne ástyrige,

      R. Ben. 68, 3.
what produces nausea, an object of loathing
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  • Óð hit gǽð þurh eówre næsþyrlu and sí gewend tó wlǽttan

    (vertatur in nauseam),

      Num. 11, 20.

  • Bútan hláfe ǽlc mete tó wlǽttan byþ gehwyrfed,

      Coll. Monast. Th. 28, 35.

  • Seó ofering ðé wurþ oþþe tó sáre oððe tó wlǽttan,

    • Bt. 14, 1
      • ;
    • Fox 42, 16.

  • Wlǽttan

    sentina (ab omni spurcitiae sentina immunes,

      Ald. 10
    ),

      Ánglia xiii. 28, 28.

  • Fúlne wlǽttan

    foetidam nauseam (sentinam ) (the passage is: Cum falsae garrulitatis incestum velut foetidam melancholiae nauseam de recessibus falsi pectoris evomuisset,

      Ald. 40
    ),

      Hpt. Gl. 475, 50.

  • Wlǽtan

    nausiam (the gloss belongs to the passage given in the preceding),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 81, 9.
defilement, disfigurement. v. an-wlǽta, -wláta; á-, ge-wlǽtan
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  • Wlǽtta

    deformatio (venusti capitis deformatio,

      Ald. 62
    ),

      Hpt. Gl. 510, 6.
Etymology
[
Þu miht mid wlate þe este bugge,
    O. and N. 1506.
]
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v.  wlǽtung wlott.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “wlǽta.” 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/36331.

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