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hwifer

  • adjective
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Grammar
hwifer, (?); adj.
Quaking, quivering, shaking. Perhaps this adjective may be inferred from the following words in Suffolk names
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  • Tó hwifermirsce,

      C. D. iii. 275, l. Wifærmyrsc, 273, 26.
  • Tó hwifræme-[ra, v. C. D. B. iii. 603, 40],

      275, 12.
  • Ic gæan þæs landes æt hwi-fersce,

      272, 16.
Etymology
[v. D. D. wiver, whiver, to shake, quiver; wivery hivering, quaking.]
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