ofer-mǣte, adj: beyond measure, excessive, immoderate, immense. (OH-ver-MAT-eh)
Category Archives: Measuring
met-cund
met-cund, adj: metrical. (MET-KUND)
hundtwentig-wintre
hundtwentig-wintre, adj: 120 years old (lit. 120 winters). [HUND-TWEN-teeγ-WIN-treh]
winter-gerīm
winter-gerīm, n.n: numbering by years; a number of years. [WIN-ter-yeh-REEM]
For this week’s Wordhord Wednesday: morning-terror, a cautionary tale about drinking. Read it on Patreon.
winter-getæl
winter-getæl, n.n: a number of years. [WIN-ter-yuh-TÆL]
heolor-bledu
heolor-bledu, f.n: the scale of a balance. (“HEH-oh-lor-BLAY-doo”)
Libra as a man holding balancing scales in a 13th-century Psalter. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS B.11.4, f. v recto. [trin-sites-pub.trin.cam.ac.uk]
winter-stund
winter-stund, f.n: a year’s space. (“ween-tair-stoond”)
scortlīce
scortlīce, adv: (of time) shortly, before long, soon; (of speech) shortly, briefly, compendiously. (“short-lee-chay”)
And for this week’s Wordhord Wednesday: paying your taxes…with fish. Read it on Patreon.
pening-weorþ
pening-weorþ, n.n: a penny-worth. (“peh-ning-weh-orth”)
em-niht
em-niht, n.n: equal day and night, equinox.
Diagram of the solstices and equinoxes. England, late twelfth century. Walters MS W.73, Cosmography.
