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ge-swope

  • noun
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Grammar
ge-swope, ge-swópe ?
sweepings, rubbish:
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  • Gaesuope

    peripsima,
      Txts. 111, 15.
  • Gisupop ( = suopo? the vowel being replaced by the consonant following it in the alphabet, a not unfrequent device, and o put for p to avoid three consecutive p's)

    peripsima superhabundans, pur*-*gamenta,

      Hpt. 33, 250, 15.
Etymology
[Cf. O. H. Ger. ga-sopho peripsima, ga*-*sopha quisquiliae, purgamenta.]
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v. ge-swǽpa.
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