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hǽþ

  • noun [ feminineneuter ]
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Grammar
hǽþ, a heath, hǽþ a plant. Take these together, for ' e ; f. ' substitute es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§47; §134; §162; §301;
m, , and add:
a heath, a tract of uncultivated, waste land,
masc.
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  • Andlang ðǽre díc tó ðǽm hǽðe foreweardan . . . ; ðonne westweard ofer ðone hǽð,

      C. D. iii. 264, 2-4.

  • Úp on ðene hǽð; ofer ðene hǽð,

      384, 26.
neut.
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  • Ofer ðæt hǽð,

      C. D. iii. 392, 3, 5.

  • On ðæt hǽð westeweard,

      427, 33.
  • On ðæt héð westeweard, v. 212, 18. v. mór-hǽþ.
a plant-name
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  • Haeth, haet (cf. haet-colas, 53, 570), hét

    calomacus (-chuns), calomancus,

      Txts. 52, 269.

  • Hǽþ

    colomacus, genesta,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 134, 35.

  • Hǽð

    calomacus,

      13, 33.

  • Haeth, haedth, haet

    thymus,

      Txts. 102, 1007.

  • Hǽþ

    timus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 285, 68.

  • Hǽð alucurus vel

    thimus,

    ii.
      10, 38.

  • Hǽþ brogus, 127, 25 :

    mirica,

    i.
      33, 54.

  • Smeóce mid hǽþe and ꝥ ylce on wíne drince,

      Lch. i. 354, 24.
  • ¶ the word is found in many compounds,
as the first part of words denoting localities, hǽþ-beorh, -burh, dún, -feld, -gára, -hricg, -leáh, -slæd,
    v. C. D. vi. 293, 294.
as part of proper names, v. Txts. 595.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “hǽþ.” 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/51575.

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