Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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styfic-leáh

(n.)
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Soc. Trans. 1895-8, p. 541

gyr

(n.)
Grammar
gyr, gyra; m., gyru; f.

Mud ⬩ fen ⬩ marsh

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Gr. 9, 33; Som. 12, 29. Gyran, gyras paludes, Lye

car-ful

(adj.)
Grammar
car-ful, adj.

CAREFUL, anxious, curious ⬩ sollicitus, curiosus

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Gl. 89; Som. 74, 112; Wrt. Voc. 51, 25

ár-wurþian

(v.)
Grammar
ár-wurþian, -wurþigean; p. ode; pp. od; v. a.

To give honour to ⬩ to honour ⬩ reverence ⬩ worship ⬩ honorare ⬩ honorificare ⬩ venerari

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To árwurþianne [MS. tarwurþienne, v. weorþianne = wurþianne, in weorþian I] ðínne, ðone sóðan and ðone áncænnedan, Sunu to honour thy, the true and only begotten, Son, Te Dm. Thomson 35, 12.

Linked entry: ár-wurþigean

ge-tæl

(n.)
Grammar
ge-tæl, -tel, -teal, es; pl. nom. acc. -talu; n.

a number ⬩ series ⬩ reckoning ⬩ computation ⬩ numerus ⬩ series ⬩ computus ⬩ computatio ⬩ a company ⬩ race ⬩ tribe ⬩ centuria ⬩ tribus ⬩ a book of reckoning ⬩ a register ⬩ catalogue ⬩ laterculum ⬩ catalogus ⬩ = κατάλoγos

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Gr. 13; Som. 15, 56: Num. Pref.

Linked entries: ge-tel ge-teal ge-tel

barþ

(n.)
Grammar
barþ, es; m.

A kind of ship ⬩ a light vessel to sail or row in ⬩ dromo

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Gl. 103; Som. 77, 102; Wrt. Voc. 56, 24

dolh-smeltas

(n.)
Grammar
dolh-smeltas, pl. m.

Linen bandages ⬩ tæniæ = ταινίαι

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Gl. 4; Som. 55, 93; Wrt. Voc. 16, 64. v. tæppan, from tæppa, m

Linked entry: smelt

eow

(n.)
Grammar
eow, es; m.

the mountain ash ⬩ ornus?

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Gl. 47; Som. 65, 40; Wrt. Voc. 33, 37

earfoþ-lǽte

(adj.)
Grammar
earfoþ-lǽte, adj.

Difficult to be sent forth ⬩ diffĭcĭlis emissu

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Gl. 11; Som. 57, 47; Wrt. Voc. 19, 49

ealdnys

(n.)
Grammar
ealdnys, -nyss, e; f.

OLDNESS, age ⬩ vĕtustas

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Gr. 5; Som. 5, 21. We awurpon ða derigendlícan ealdnysse we have cast off pernicious age, Homl. Th. i. 194, 25

hwistlere

(n.)
Grammar
hwistlere, es; m.

A piper

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Gr. 9; Som. 9, 25. Ðá hé geseah hwistleras cum vidisset tibicines, Mt. Kmbl. 9, 23

médren-gecynd

(n.)
Grammar
médren-gecynd, es; n.

Nature derived from the mother

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Nature derived from the mother Hé wæs sóð man þurh his médrengecynd (méddrengecynd) he was very man in the nature derived from his mother, Wulfst. 17, 7

samod-swégende

(adj.)

consonantes

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Gr. 2; Som. 2, 49

ofer-libban

(v.)

to outlive, survive

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Láf oððe oferlibbende superstes, Gr. 9, 26; Som. 11, 7

ge-swælan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-swælan, p. de; pp. ed, ud

To light ⬩ kindle ⬩ inflammare ⬩ accendere

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Gl. 60; Som. 68, 35; Wrt. Voc. 39, 21

græf

(n.)
Grammar
græf, es; n.
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Gl. 80; Som. 72, 114; Wrt. Voc. 46, 71

hrif-wund

(adj.)
Grammar
hrif-wund, adj.
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If he be run through let twenty shillings be paid [cf. the passage given in the note from Alamannic Laws, 'si in interiora membra transpunctus fuerit, quod hrefwunt dicunt, cum xii sol. componat. Si transpunctusfuerit cum xxiv sol. componat.'

or-hlyte

(adj.)
Grammar
or-hlyte, adj.

Having no share of, not participating in, free from, without

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Gr. 9, 43; Som. 13, I: 47; Som. 48, 44. Orhlita exsors, Wrt. Voc. i. 51, 48. Wá ðære sáwle ðe orhlyte hyre lîf ádríhþ ðæra háligra mihta. Homl. Th. i. 346, 25. Orhlyte ýdeles gylpes, ii. 286, 28.

ge-fégan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-fégan, -fégean; p. de; pp. ed; v. trans.

To join ⬩ unite ⬩ compact ⬩ compose ⬩ jungĕre ⬩ conjungĕre ⬩ compingĕre ⬩ compōnĕre

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Ic ða ged ne mæg gefégean I cannot compose the songs, Bt. Met. Fox 2, 11; Met. 2, 6. Ic gefége compōno, Ælfc. Gr. 28, 3; Som. 30, 57.

Cealca ceaster

(n.)
Grammar
Cealca ceaster, ceastre; f.

The chalk city

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The chalk city Camden thinks it is Tadcaster, in Yorkshire idem, ut opinatur clarus Camdenus, quod hodie Tadcaster in agro Eboracensi, sic olim vocatum a ealce ibidem copiose effossa, Som. Ben. Lye