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bōc-cist

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bōc-cist, f.n: a repository for books, either for reading or for sale. (BOAK-CHIST / ˈboːk-ˌtʃɪst)

Look for The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English at your local bōc-cist – it’s out in the US & Canada today! Find out more.

A book, The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English, by Hana Videen, against a background of woven textiles. The cover background is white with a gold and red border with decorative gold dots. The title and author’s name are written inside an arched window shape, with a border of Old English words surrounding it: wæfre-gange, gafol-fisc, hring-finger, on-lucan, cwen, æg, dust, beo-gang, lig-draca, wyrd, dream-cræft, hærfest, and druncen-georn. The area surrounding the Old English word border has wood-cut style illustrations in red and gold, each in its own compartment but overlapping slightly: a spider, a fish, the letter h in a calligraphic style, a hand with a ring, a key, a woman carrying a basket of eggs, a bee, a dragon, an ink pot and quill with scroll of paper, a man playing a harp, a bundle of wheat, and a goblet.
Published in the UK by Profile Books on 11 November 2021. Published in the US and Canada by Princeton University Press today.

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on-þræc

Posted on October 2, 2022 by Hana Videen

on-þræc, adj: horrible, dreadful. (ON-THRACK / ˈɔn-ˌθræk)

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ofen

Posted on October 1, 2022 by Hana Videen

ofen, m.n: oven. (OV-en / ˈɔ-vɛn)

Medieval manuscript image of a brown rabbit standing on its hind legs, holding a long-handled baking tray in its forepaws, with the tray halfway into an oven.
Pontifical; England, early 15th century; British Library, Lansdowne 451, f. 6r. [bl.uk]

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bealcettan

Posted on September 30, 2022 by Hana Videen

bealcettan, wk.v: to belch; (of speech or words) to utter. (BEH-al-chet-tahn / ˈbɛal-tʃɛt-tan)

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ropp

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Hana Videen

ropp, m.n: an intestine, the colon. (ROP / ˈrɔp)

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gilp-word

Posted on September 28, 2022 by Hana Videen

gilp-word, n.n: boast. (YILP-WORD / ˈjɪlp-ˌwɔrd)

This week’s Wordhord Wednesday post is on boasts and yelps. Read it on Patreon.

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fǣr

Posted on September 27, 2022 by Hana Videen

fǣr, m.n: sudden or unexpected danger; peril, calamity. (FAER / ˈfæːr)

Medieval manuscript image a two-legged blue and green creature with a dragon-like tail that instead of a head has a single human arm holding an ax.
Book of Hours; Flanders, c. 1300-1310; Walters Art Museum, W.37, f. 187v. [thedigitalwalters.org]
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ge-witnes

Posted on September 26, 2022 by Hana Videen

ge-witnes, f.n: witness, testimony, knowledge; person who can provide testimony from personal observation; the practice of having witnesses present at a transaction. (yeh-WIT-ness / jɛ-ˈwɪt-nɛs)

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wāc-līc

Posted on September 25, 2022 by Hana Videen

wāc-līc, adj: poor, mean, of little dignity or worth, paltry. (WAHK-leech / ˈwaːk-liːtʃ)

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searu-nīþ

Posted on September 24, 2022 by Hana Videen

searu-nīþ, m.n: hostility to which effect is given by treachery, crafty enmity; martial strife, the strife of armed men, battle. (SEH-ah-ruh-NEETH / ˈsɛa-rʌ-ˌniːθ)

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gif-stōl

Posted on September 23, 2022 by Hana Videen

gif-stōl, m.n: ‘gift-seat’, the seat from which gifts are distributed, the throne. (YIF-STOAL / ˈjɪf-ˌstoːl)

Medieval manuscript image of a haloed man in a robe with crosses on it sitting on a bench on a dais in a fancy building; a haloed bird appears to whisper something in his ear and two men kiss his feet.
Regularis Concordia, St Dunstan enthroned; England (Canterbury?), c. 1120; British Library, Cotton MS Claudius A. iii, f. 8r. [blogs.bl.uk]

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