mere-hūs

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mere-hūs, n.n: a sea-house (Noah’s ark). (MEH-ruh-HOOS / ˈmɛ-ɹə-ˌhuːs)

This week’s Wordhord Wednesday post is about wer-genga, a stranger in a strange land. Read it on Patreon.

Noah’s ark in La Somme le Roi by Frère Laurent of Orleans (1295). Bibliothèque nationale de France, Mazarine MS 870, fol. 103r. [gallica.bnf.fr]

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