mān-hūs

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Hana Videen

mān-hūs, n.n: a house of wickedness, hell. (MAHN-HOOS / ˈmaːn-ˌhuːs)

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munt

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Hana Videen

munt, m.n: mount, hill, mountain. (MUNT / ˈmʌnt)

Medieval manuscript image of two finely clothed men following a large group of naked men to a rocky mountain. — Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia; S Italy (Naples), c. 1370; British Library, Add MS 19587, f. 63r. [bl.uk]

pearroc

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Hana Videen

pearroc, m.n: an enclosure. (PEH-ar-rock / ˈpɛar-rɔk)

Medieval manuscript image of a white-wimpled woman looking out a window from an enclosed cell with a cross; a man with a bishop’s mitre and crozier stands outside. — Pontificale; England (probably London), c. 1400-c. 1410; Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 79, f. 96r. [parker.stanford.edu]

heofon

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Hana Videen

heofon, m.n: the firmament, the sky; heaven, the abode of God, his angels, and holy people after death, imagined as high above the earth; the power or majesty of heaven or God. (HEH-oh-von / ˈhɛɔ-vɔn)

heolstor-hof

Posted on October 27, 2021 by Hana Videen

heolstor-hof, n.n: a dark dwelling, hell. (HEH-ol-stor-HOFF / ˈhɛɔl-stɔr-ˌhɔf)

This week’s Wordhord Wednesday post is on St Helena’s discovery of the True Cross. Read it on Patreon.

Medieval manuscript illustration of a haloed, bleeding, cross-bearing Christ guiding naked men out of a gaping, toothy animal mouth; a couple of hairy demons watch. — Carrow Psalter; England (East Anglia), c. 1250; Walters Art Museum, W. 34, f. 28v. [art.thewalters.org]

hell

Posted on October 16, 2021 by Hana Videen

hell, f.n: the abode of the dead, underworld in which the spirits of the departed dwell; the hell of the damned, place of eternal punishment for evil human beings and angels. (HELL / ˈhɛl)