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módor-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
módor-líc, adj.

Maternal

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Maternal Móderlíc maternus, Ælfc. Gr. 5; Som. 4, 57. móderlícere stæððinysse materna gravitate, Hpt. Gl. 469, 37

módor-lic

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Mid móderlice[re] cennincge materna matrice, An. Ox. 1763. Add

módorlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
módorlíce, adv.
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Like a mother Heó wearð gehádod tó abudessan on Élígmynstre ofer manega mynecena, and heó hí módorlíce heóld mid gódum gebysnungum tó þám gástlican lífe, Hml. S. 20, 39

beorþor

child-bearing ⬩ partus ⬩ gestation ⬩ partus ⬩ foetus

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Þurh hire beorþor sceolde beón gehǽled eall wífa cynn, 5, 23. ꝥ hé wǽre fram Þám módorlicum beorðrum on ꝥ mynster befæst Hml.

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