smeoru-mangestre, f.n: a butter-woman, woman who deals in butter and cheese. (SMAY-oh-ruh-MAHN-yez-treh)
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Marginalia in a bible. Northeast France, last quarter of the 13th century. New York, Morgan Library, MS M.969, f. 253r. [ica.themorgan.org]
scīn-lǣce, f.n: a woman who practises magic, a sorceress. (SHEEN-LATCH-eh)
mǣg, m.n: a relative, kinsman. Also, f.n: a woman, kinswoman. (MA-γ)
ǣ-swīca, m.n: an offender of the law, a deceiver, hypocrite, apostate. (AA-zwee-ka)
land-būend, m.n: a cultivator of the land, husbandman; an inhabitant of a country, a native, a dweller on earth. (LOND-boo-end)
Luttrell Psalter. N. England, 1325-1335. British Library, Add. MS 42130, f. 171r. [bl.uk]
sund-būend, m.n: a sea-dweller, but the word, which occurs only in the plural, is used for men, mankind. (SUND-BOO-end)
gāst-berend, m.n: a spirit-bearer, soul-bearer, living person, man. (GAHST-beh-rend)
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scip-wyrhta, m.n: a shipwright, builder of ships. (SHIP-WUER-h’ta / ˈʃɪp-ˌwyrx-ta)
fǣmne, f.n: a virgin, damsel, maid, woman. (FAM-neh)
Jacob van Maerlant’s Der Naturen Bloeme. Flanders, c. 1350. Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, KA 16, f. 63r. [bestiary.ca]
wīte-þēow, m.n: one condemned to slavery for crime, or from inability to pay the fines incurred from that crime; (figuratively) one in hell. (WEE-teh-THAY-oh)
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