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BEÓR

  • noun [ masculineneuter ]
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Grammar
BEÓR, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§137; §343;
BEER, nourishing or strong drink; cerevisia, sicera. Beer, made from malted barley, was the favourite drink of the Anglo-Saxons. In their drinking parties, they pledged each other in large cups, round at the bottom, which must be emptied before they could be laid down, hence perhaps the name of a tumbler. We are speaking of the earliest times, for beer is mentioned in Beowulf ☞ Beer was the common drink of the Anglo-Saxons, hence a convivial party was called Gebeórscipe, q. v : a place of entertainment, beórsele a beer-hall, or beórtún a beerenclosure. Hence also the other compounds, as beór-scealc a beer-server, beór-setl a beer-bench or SETTLE, and beór-þegu a beer-serving. The following remark seems to be as applicable to the Anglo-Saxons as to the Icelanders, - Öl heitir með mönnum, en með Ásum bjór ale is called, by men and by gods, BEER, Alvismál. - Beóre druncen
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  • Gebeótedon beóre druncne oret-mecgas, ðæt hie in beór-sele bídan woldon Grendles gúðe

    the sons of conflict, drunk with beer, promised that they would await in the beer-hall the attack of Grendel

    • Beo. Th. 965
      • ;
    • B. 480.

  • Æt beóre

    at the beer,

    • 4088; B. 2041.

    drunk with beer

    • Beo. Th. 1066
      • ;
    • B. 531 : Exon. 72 b
      • ;
    • Th. 271, 22
      • ;
    • Jul. 486.

  • He ne drincþ wín ne beór

    vinum et siceram non bibet

    • Lk. Bos. 1, 15 : Deut. 14, 26.

  • Ðæt mon geselle twelf seoxtres beóras

    that they give twelve sesters of beer

    • Th. Diplm. A. D. 901-909
      • ;
    • 158, 22.
Grammar
BEÓR, n. =
a beverage made of honey and water, mead; metheglin, hydromeli, ĭtis, ύδρόμελι, ydromellum, mulsum
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  • Beór

    ydromellum

    • Ælfc. Gl. 32
      • ;
    • Som. 61, 114
      • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 27, 43.

  • Beór

    mulsum

    • Ælfc. Gl. 32
      • ;
    • Som. 61, 118
      • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 27, 46.
Etymology
[
Plat. beer, n
:
Frs. biar, n
:
Dut. Ger. bier, n
:
Icel. bjór, bjórr, m
:
O. H. Ger. pier, n
:
Sansk. pā to drink.
]
Derived forms
beór-hyrde, -scealc, -scipe, -sele, -setl, -þegu, -tún, gebeór, -scípe
Linked entries
v.  biór.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “BEÓR.” 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/3720.

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