cū-ēage

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Hana Videen

cū-ēage, f.n: a cow’s eye. (KOO-AY-ah-yeh)

Luttrell Psalter. England, c. 1325-1340. British Library, Add MS 42130, f. 159v. [bl.uk]

hlēor

Posted on June 24, 2018 by Hana Videen

hlēor, n.n: a cheek, face. (HLAY-or)

feorh-gōma

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Hana Videen

feorh-gōma, m.n: fatal or deadly jaws. (FAY-orh-GO-ma)

Crocodile eating a human, then a fish. Bestiary. England, c. 1225-1250. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodley 764, f. 24r. [bestiary.ca]

lybb

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Hana Videen

lybb, n.n: medicine, drug, possibly poison; the word usually implies the use of witchcraft. (LUB)

wyrmǣte

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Hana Videen

wyrmǣte, adj: worm-eaten. (WURM-at-teh)

This week’s Wordhord Wednesday post is on St Andrew’s thoughtful speech. Read and hear it on Patreon.

A sumptuously-dressed noble lady in a tomb with coats of arms, while below her skeleton is devoured by worms and insects. A Carthusian miscellany of poems, chronicles, and treatises. A Yorkshire or Lincolnshire Carthusian monastery (Axholme, Mountgrace or Kingston-upon-Hull?), 1460-1500. British Library, Add MS 37049, f. 32v. [bl.uk]

hār-wenge

Posted on May 20, 2018 by Hana Videen

hār-wenge, adj: hoary, grey-haired. (HAR-wen-yeh)

flǣsc-hord

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Hana Videen

flǣsc-hord, n.n: the flesh-hoard, the body. [FLÆSH-hord]

Bloodletting-Zodiac Man, from a collection of astronomical, calendrical, medical and philosophical texts compiled in England (1275-1540). British Library, Harley MS 3719, ff. 158v-159r. [blogs.bl.uk]