æger-felma

æger-felma, f.n: film or membrane of an egg. (“a-yer-fell-mah”)

An ostrich leaves its egg to be hatched by the warmth of the sun. Hainaut, 1285. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, fr. 14970, folio 21v. [BNF]

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this:

Old English Wordhord