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ysel

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
ysel, e; ysle, an; f.
A spark, cinder, an ash, ember
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  • Ysle

    favilla,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 19: 66, 44: 284, 17: ii. 36, 53
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  • On yslan

    in favillam,

    • Hpt. Gl. 495, 31
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  • Hé geseah hú ða ysla up flugon mid ðam smíce

    vidit ascendentem favillam,

    • Gen. 19, 28
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  • Gé syndon dust and acsan and ysela,

    • Guthl. 5
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    • Gdwin. 38, 23
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  • Heora wyrtruma bið swá swá windige ysla

    radix eorum quasi favilla erit

    • (Is. 5, 24)
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    • Homl. Th. ii. 322, 20
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  • Ða yslan

    cineres,

    • Exon. Th. 213, 13
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    • Ph. 224
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  • In onlícnesse uppástigendra yselena (ysla,v. l.)

    instar favillarum ascendentium,

    • Bd. 5, 12
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    • S. 628, 23
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  • Geong of ðám yselum

    de favilla

    eft áríseþ,

    • Nar. 39, 7
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  • Ic eom yslum and axum geanlícod

    assimilatus sum favillae et cineri

    • (Job 30, 19)
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    • Homl. Th. ii. 456, 13
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  • Bearwas wurdon tó axan and tó yslan,

    • Cd. Th. 154, 9
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    • Gen. 2553
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  • Gebringeþ bán and yslan, ádes láfe, eft ætsomne,

    • Exon. Th. 216, 21
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    • Ph. 271: 236, 18
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    • Ph. 576
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Etymology
[
On asshen and on iselen in fauilla et cinere, O. E. Homl. ii. 65, 18.
I am bot erþe ful euel and usle so blake, Allit. Pms. 60, 747.
Isyl of fyre fauilla, Prompt. Parv. 266 and see note.
M. H. Ger. usele; and see Grff. i. 487
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Icel. usli a conflagration; a field of burning embers
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  • ysel, n.