Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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-býran

(suffix)

Similar entry: ge-býran

-byrde

(suffix)

Similar entry: þole-byrde

byrdest

(adj.)
Grammar
byrdest, se byrdesta the highest born, most noble, richest, Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 20, 36; sup.
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of byrde

byren

(adj.)
Grammar
byren, adj.
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Belonging to a bear; ursinus, Som. Ben. Lye

byreþ

(v.)
Grammar
byreþ, bears, Beo. Th. 598; B. 296;
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3rd pers. pres. of beran

byrhtm

(n.)
Grammar
byrhtm, es; m.
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Noise, tumult; fragor, tumultus, Apstls. Kmbl. 42; Ap. 21

byrig

(n.)
Grammar
byrig, to a city, Ps. Th. 44, 13: 47, 11; dat.
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of burh

byrig

(n.)
Grammar
byrig, es; n.
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A mulberry-tree; morus He ofslóh byrig heora on hagule occidit moros eorum in pruina, Ps. Spl. 77, 52: L. M. 2, 53; Lchdm. ii. 274, 17

byrne

(n.)
Grammar
byrne, an; f.
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Running water, a stream; torrens, rivus Ofer byrnan bðsm over the stream's bosom, Exon. 102a; Th. 386, 15; Rä. 4, 62

byrþ

(n.)
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a birth

byrce

Grammar
byrce, barking.

Similar entry: birce

byren

Similar entry: biren

byrig

(n.)
Grammar
byrig, tumba (An. Ox. 4346; Hpt. Gl. 507, 66) = byrigen
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or byrigels

byrig

(n.)
Grammar
byrig, (cf. byri-weard) a city.
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Dele e; f. acc. s. byrige. In the earlier MS. of the Chron. the form burg occurs in the passages; in the later the mutated form seems to have made its way into the nominative and accusative

byrig

(n.)
Grammar
byrig, a mulberry tree? In Ps. Spl. 77, 52 has the glosser read muros ? or moras ? (mora mansio, habitatio, Migne): in Lch. ii. 274, 17
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byrig eolonan might be a compound ?

byris

Similar entry: byres

byrla

Similar entry: birla

byrle

Similar entry: byrele

-byrdo

(suffix)

Similar entry: mis-byrdo

byrht-word

(adj.)
Grammar
byrht-word, adj. [byrht = beorht bright, word a word]
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Bright of word, clear in words or speech; clarus voce Byrhtword arás engla ordfruma the creator of angels, bright of words, arose, Cd. 218; Th. 279, 15; Sat. 238

Linked entry: beorht-word

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