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Anglo-Saxon

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an-mitta

Similar entry: hand-mitta

an-weald

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Take here on-weald, and add:

ár-gebland

Similar entry: eár-gebland

ád-fynig

(n.)
Grammar
ád-fynig, es; n.

A damp place where a bonfire was made(?)

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A damp place where a bonfire was made(?) Be eástan pyte tó ðám ealdan ádfini; of ðám finie, C. D. v. 194, 2

Linked entry: fynig

ǽ-bær

(adj.)
Grammar
ǽ-bær, ǽ-bǽre (-bére); adj.

Brought to light (of the criminal or the crime where guilt is manifest), notorious, proved

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Ǽbǽre þeóf occurs in a list of privileges granted to a monastery :-- On eallan þingan . . . ðe ðǽr mid rihte tó gebyrað, mid fyrdwíte and fyhtwíte and ǽbǽre þeóf and griðbryce and foresteall and hámsócne, C. D. iv. 222, 23

ǽ-ber

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ǽ-bilignes

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ǽ-blǽcung

Similar entry: á-blǽcung

ǽ-brec

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Dele

ǽ-brecþ

(n.)
Grammar
ǽ-brecþ, e; f.

Sacrilege

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Sacrilege Þurh ǽbrecþe per sacrilegium, Ps. L. fol. 182 b

ǽ-brucol

(adj.)
Grammar
ǽ-brucol, adj.

Sacrilegious

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Sacrilegious Ǽbrucolon sacrilegis, Germ. 402, 86

ǽ-bylg

(n.)
Grammar
ǽ-bylg, m.
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Geæfnan ǽbylg Godes to excite God's anger, Gú. 1211

ǽ-bylga

(n.)
Grammar
ǽ-bylga, an; m.

Anger

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Anger Ǽbylgan indignationem, Ps. L. 77, 49

ǽ-cnósle

(adj.)
Grammar
ǽ-cnósle, adj.

Degenerate

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Degenerate Ǽcnósle degener, ignobilis, dissimilis parentibus, ǽcnóslum ádle degeneri languore, Wrt. Voc. ii. 138, 30-32: 75

Linked entry: cnósl

ǽ-cræftig

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æ-fæstan

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Wrt. Voc. ii. 44, 72

ǽ-fæsten

Grammar
ǽ-fæsten, (ǽw-).
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æfter-ǽ

(n.)
Grammar
æfter-ǽ, f.

Second-law, Deuteronomy

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Second-law, Deuteronomy Seó bóc ðe is genemned . . . on Grécisc Deuteronomium . . . and on Englisc seó æfterǽ, Deut. proem

ǽ-lǽte

(adj.)
Grammar
ǽ-lǽte, adj.

Desert, desolate

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Desert, desolate Oð ðæt heora burga weorðan ǽlǽte and weorðan heora eardas swýðe áwéste donec desolentur civitates absque habitatore, et domus sine homine, et terra relinquetur deserta, Wlfst. 47, 21

Linked entries: á-lǽtan -lǽte -lǽte ǽ-léten

ǽ-lǽte

(n.)
Grammar
ǽ-lǽte, an; f.: es; n.

A desert

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A desert Ǽlǽtan (á-, Wrt.) deserta, s. vocata quae mm seruntur, Wrt. Voc. ii. 139, 14. Wéstensetlan ðe feor fram mannum gewítað and wéste stówa and ǽlǽtu lufiaþ, R. Ben. 134, 12

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