weald
High land covered with wood ⬩ wood ⬩ forest.
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Hié heora líchoman leáfum bebeahton, weredon mid ðý wealde,, 52, 19; Gen. 846. using the name of the whole for a part
Linked entries: weald-leþer geald wealda wilde
ge-hweled
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Nam cum putredo, quae interius fervet, ejicitur, ad salutem dolor aperitur Past. 273, 22. Siþþan ꝥ geswel biþ gehweled and tóbyrst, Lch. ii. 208, 4.
B
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Eng. graƀan = grafan = engrave klioƀan = cleófan = cleave geƀan = gifan = give The Runic letter ᛒ not only stands for the letter B, b, but also for the name of the letter in Anglo-Saxon beorc the birch-tree
ge-leornes
A going ⬩ removing ⬩ departure ⬩ death ⬩ transĭtus ⬩ transmigrātio
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This gloss is to be explained by the old interpretation of the Hebrew, name, according to which Galilea = transmigratio
Linked entries: ge-leorednes ge-liornes
steorra
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Ðone beorhtan steorran ðe wé hátaþ morgensteorra; ðone ilcan wé hátaþ óþre naman ǽfensteorra, Bt. 4; Fox 8, 2-4. Tácna on steorrum, Lk. Skt. 21, 25
wer-nægel
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Ðá lǽrde hí sum man ðæt heó náme ǽnne wernægel of sumes oxan hricge, and becnytte tó ánum hringe mid hire snóde, and mid ðam hí tó nacedum líce begyrde, Homl. Th. ii. 28, 17
ge-hirwan
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On gemǽnum naman muneca ingehýd byð gehyrewed sub generali nomine monachorum propositum blasphe-matur R. Ben. 136, 5
Linked entry: ge-hyrwan
hám-stede
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Add: ¶ the word occurs as a place-name in the charters, but in some of the following instances (e. g. vi. 35, 34) it is or may be a common noun, and in some perhaps to ham rather than to hám should the first part of the compound be referred On hámstedes
morgen-gifu
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Nabbe gé (the suitors for the speaker's daughter) ná gódne tíman áredodne . . . ac . . . áwrítað eówre naman on gewrite and hire morgengife, þonne ásænde ic þá gewrita mínre dohtor ꝥ heó sylf geceóse hwilcne eówer heó wille, Ap. Th. 20, 7 [v. N. E.
gader-tang
Contiguous, conjoint, in contact or connexion ⬩ continuous
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Voc. ii. 136, 33. of material things Ðá landgemǽro ðæsse búrlandes tó Abbendúne, ðæt is gadertang on þreó genamod, ðæt is Hengestes íg and Seofocanwyrð and Wihthám (i. e. the land lies altogether but it is divided into three parts, each with its own name
þrýþ-swíþ
Exceedingly powerful
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[Cf. the proper names Æþel-swíþ, Beorht-swíþ.]
Linked entry: swíþ
un-gefóg
immense ⬩ intemperate ⬩ immoderate excessive
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immense Hí námon sceattas genóge sylfrene and gyldene ungefóge, Homl. Skt. i. 23, 199. in a bad sense, intemperate, immoderate excessive Seó þwyre sáwul on hwílwendlícum bricum biþ ungefóh, Homl. Th. i. 408, 15.
ísen
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Hié námon treówu and slógon on óþerne ende monige scearpe ísene næglas, Ors. 4, l; S. 158, 5. Hwæt ylst þú ús on smiþþan þínre búton ísene fýrspearcan (ferreas scintillas), Coll. M. 31,5. Add: —
hyll-wyrt
Hill-wort
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Plant Names hillwort is given as [1] mentha pulegium; [2] thymus serpyllum
Linked entry: hǽl-wyrt
ge-witennes
Departure
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On ðone ylcan dæg byþ ðæs bisceopes gewytennys se wæs nemned scs Cassius on the same day is the bishop's departure who was named St. Cassius, Shrn. 97, 36
windel-streáw
Windle-straw, some kind of coarse grass or reed
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Plant Names) Eár spica, egle aresta, windelstreów calmum, Wrt. Voc. i. 287, 22: ii. 16, 74. Genim ðæt micle greáte windelstreáw twyecge, ðæt on worþium wixð, Lchdm. ii. 44, 4
L
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In the Runic alphabet the character, which in name and form agrees with the Scandinavian rune ᛚ lögr, was ᛚ lagu.
frosc
A frog
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. ¶ in local names Forscaburna, C. D. iii. 383, 29. Æt Froxafelda, 127, 33
un-ásecgendlíc
beyond the powers of language to describe ⬩ unspeakable ⬩ indescribable ⬩ ineffable ⬩ not proper to tell ⬩ not to be told
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Hé nam of hire eall ðæt heó áhte on golde and on seolfre and on unásecgendlícum þingum ( things innumerable ), Chr. 1042; Erl. 169, 21.
clǽg
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Add: ¶ as a component of words denoting places with a clayey soil, Clay- in local names Of clǽgbróce . . . on clǽgbróc, C. D. vi. 52, 25, 29. Cléigate, iv. 178, 2. On clǽghyrste, C. D. B. iii. 45, 7. On clǽgweg, andlang clǽgweges, 44, 25: C.