Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

híwisc

Dictionary links
Grammar
híwisc, l. híwisce, híwisc. For suffix cf. ídisc(e).
Wright's OE grammar
§632;
After the bracket in the last line but one insert Hml. Th. i. 310, 28. Æt híwisce, and add:
a family, house
Show examples

  • Fader híwisc

    pater familias,

    • Rtl. 190, 21
      • .

  • Se fæder híuuisc ł hiórodes fæder ł hígna fæder,

    • Lk. L. 13, 25.

  • Se fæder híuuisc (ðe fæder ðæs hiórodes,

    • R.
      • ),
    • 14, 21
      • .

  • Cuoedas gié ðǽm fæder híuuisc ł hiórodes,

    • 22, 11.
    [In the Northern specimens the word shews no inflection, and might almost be taken for an adjective qualifying fæder, if it were not for the last passage, where fæder is dative.]

  • Laurentius him ðæs getíðode, and nigontýne wera and wífa his híwisces gefullode,

    • Hml. Th. i. 422, 23
      • .
a hide of land with a household settled on it, a family-holding of land [cf. the two forms given to the same regulation
Show examples

  • Gif wilisc man geþeó ꝥ hé hæbbe híwisc landes, and Gif hé beó tó þám gewelegod ꝥ hé hýred and éht áge,

    • Ll. Th. i. 186, 13
      • and
    • 23
      • .
    See Andrews' Old English Manor. p. 167, n. 2: Seebohm, Vill. Com. s. v.: Sax. Eng. i. 92].
Similar entries
v. híw-scipe;
Show examples

  • Æt Bitelanwyrthe án híwisce, and æt Brómleáge án híwisce,

    • C. D. B. iii. 133, 18
      • .

  • In loco qui dicitur heregeardingchíwisce,

    • C. D. ii. 51, 19
      • .

  • Æt Cemele tién hýda, æt Domeccesíge þridde half híwisce,

    • 53, 16
      • .

  • Óðer half héwisse,

    • iii. 410, 12.

  • Ðis his ðára .v. hída bóc æt Dydylingetúne and ðas ánes híwisces æt Uddingc (cf. Ðis sint ðáre .v. hída landgemǽre tó Dydylingtúne and ðas syxtan æt Udding,

    • 444, 27
      • .

    In the Latin charter the grant is described as 'aliquam terrae partem duobus in locis, id est v mansas ubi uulgariter dicitur aet Dydylingtúne, et unam mansam ubi uocitatur aet Uddinge',

    • ii. 330, 1
      • ),
    • iii. 445, 22
      • .

  • On óðre healfe ánes híwisces,

    • 435, 13
      • .

  • Ðis synt ðá landgemǽro ðæs híwisces æt Winterburnan ... Ðis his ðæs híwisces landgemǽro on Wiht

    (cf. duas mansas, unam mansam in Uecta Insula, aliam ... æt Uuinterburnan,

    • ii. 299, 6-10
      • ),
    • 431, 7-16
      • .

  • Æt hilcan híwisce,

    • v. 147, 13.

  • Oð ídel híwisce

    (land where no family was living? see first passage under ídel in Dict.)

    eásteweard,

    • 319, 21
      • .

  • Geaf hé him týn híwisca (hída, v. l.) landes ... and æfter medmiclum fæce sealde him mynster þrítiges híwisca (hída, v. l.)

    donauit terram x familiarum ... et non multo post monasterium xxx familiarum,

    • Bd. 5, 19
      • ;
    • Sch. 662, 3-7
      • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. híwiski
:
O. H. Ger. híwiski domus, familia.
]
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “híwisc.” 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/52620.

Checked: 1
Full form

Word-wheel

  • híwisc,

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.