sǣ-burh, f.n: a maritime town. (SÆ-burh)
A man riding on a donkey, head in hand, across a bridge, as a personification of Idleness (Peresse). The Dunois Hours. Central France (Paris), c. 1440 – c. 1450 (after 1436). British Library, Yates Thompson 3, f. 162r. [bl.uk]
wyrt-geard, m.n: a kitchen-garden. (WURT-YAY-ard)
wind-sele, m.n: a windy hall. (WIND-sell-eh)
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sǣl-wang, m.n: a fertile plain, plain. (SAL-wang)
hūs, n.n: a house, a family; a building for human habitation. [HOOS]
The Holy Family at work, in the Hours of Catherine of Cleves. The Netherlands (Utrecht), c. 1440. New York, Morgan Library, MS M.917/945, p. 149. [themorgan.org]
pleg-hūs, n.n: a play-house, theatre. [PLAY-hoos]
wyrt-tūn, m.n: a garden. [WURT-TOON]
A garden in Convenevole da Prato’s address in verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples. Italy (Tuscany), c. 1335-c. 1340. British Library, MS. Royal 6 E IX, fol. 15v. [bl.uk]
tūn, m.n: an enclosed piece of ground, a yard, court; a habitation of humans; an estate, farm; a collection of dwellings, a village, town. [TOON]
A bishop blesses the opening of an annual fleece fair. Pontificale Senonense (14th century). Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 962, fol. 264r. [gallica.bnf.fr]
sunn-bearu, m.n: a sunny grove. [SUN-BEH-ah-roo]
sunn-feld, m.n: Elysium (the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology; paradise). [SUN-feld]
