ge-swustra
sisters,
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sisters, Mk. Bos. 10, 29: Homl. Th. ii. 458, 29. To mínre méder and mínum geswustrum to my mother and my sisters, Nar. 3, 8
ǽ-swutol
One who makes the law clear ⬩ a lawyer ⬩ legisperitus
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One who makes the law clear, a lawyer; legisperitus
ge-sweostor
sisters; ⬩ sorores;
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sisters; sorores; used as the pl. of sweostor His twá dóhtor, swáse gesweostor his two daughters, own sisters, Exon. 112 b; Th. 431, 29; Rä. 47, 3. Ðǽr wǽron twá cwéna ða wǽran gesweostoa there were two queens who were sisters, Ors. 1, 10; Bos. 33, 36
Linked entries: sweostor ge-swustra ge-swystra
sweostor
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Swustor (suoester, Lind.: swester, Rush.) sororem, Jn. Skt. 11, 5. Swuster, Gen. 25, 20. Hiera swostur (sweostor, swystor (-er), swustra) wǽrun Cuénburg and Cúþburh, Chr. 718; Th. pp. 70, 71. Neogone wǽran Noðþæs sweoster, Lchdm. iii. 62, 18.
Linked entries: suster swuster ge-sweostor
feor-sibb
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A distant relative Ne bið ná gelíc ꝥ man wið swustor gehǽme and hit wǽre feorsibb, Ll. Th. i. 404, 18
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munuc-reáf
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Eála swustor . . . álege þíne woruldlican gegyrlan, and gegyre þé mid munucreáfe, Hml. S. 33. 82. Þám preóste is ungedafenlic ꝥ hé munucreáf ( uestem monachicam ) werige, Chrd. 63, 32
Linked entry: munuc-scrúd
ge-hǽman
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Ꝥ man wið swustor gehǽme, Ll. Th. i. 404, 27
máge
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Ꝥ nán biscop ne nán mæssepreóst næbbe on his húse wunigende ǽnigne wífman, búton hit sý his módor oððe his swustor, faðu oððe móddrige, oððe máge of þám þe ne mage nán unhlísa áspringan, Ll. Th. ii. 376, 23.
murnan
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., and add: Oferfyll bið þǽre sáwle feónd . . . hit ne murneð for nánum men, ne for fæder ne for méder ne for bróðter ne for swustor, Wlfst. 242, 6.
líchamlíce
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Maria is his módor líchamlíce and gástlíce his swustor, 33, 219.
CWACIAN
QUAKE, shake, tremble ⬩ tremere, contremere
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Seó cwacigende swustor the quaking sister, Homl. Th. ii. 32, 26, 31. Heó gemétte ealle hire bearn cwacigende eallum limum she found all her children quaking in every limb, 30, 20. Heard ecg cwacaþ the hard edge shaketh, Elen. Kmbl. 1513 ; El. 758 .
CLYPPAN
To embrace ⬩ clasp ⬩ CLIP ⬩ cherish ⬩ complecti ⬩ amplexari
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Ðá Laban gehírde ðæt Iacob wæs cumen his swustor sunu, ðá arás he togeánes and clypte hine cum audisset Laban venisse Iacob filium sororis suæ, cucurrit obviam ei complexusque eum Gen. 29, 13.
Linked entry: be-clyppan
sib
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Ger. sibbo consanguineus) Ne biþ ná gelíc ðæt man wið swustor gehǽme and hit wǽre feor sibb ( or ? feorsibb ; cf. neáh-sibb), L. C. S. 52; Th. i. 404, 28. Ðǽr ne byþ sybbes lufu tó óðrum, Wulfst. 146, 13. Ðære sibban ob cognate, Wrt.
and
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Ne bið ná gelíc ꝥ man wið swustor gehǽme and hit wǽre feor sibb, 404, 27. Ꝥ cild þá gýtseras lǽton efenscyldig and hit gewittig wǽre, 420, 2. Hé wæs ǽfre efenmihtig and hé gyt is, Wlfst. 16, 7.
ge-líc
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., stated in clauses, equal (in badness) Ne bið ná gelíc ꝥ man wið swustor gehǽme and hit wǽre feorsibb, Ll. Th. i. 404, 27.