wyrt-geard

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Hana Videen

wyrt-geard, m.n: kitchen garden. (WUERT-YEH-ard / ˈwyrt-ˌjɛard)

wind-sele

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Hana Videen

wind-sele, m.n: a windy hall. (WIND-sell-eh)

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sǣl-wang

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Hana Videen

sǣl-wang, m.n: a fertile plain, plain. (SAL-wang)

hūs

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Hana Videen

hūs, n.n: building, house; temporary shelter; room. (HOOS / ˈhuːs)

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

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Hana Videen

pleg-hūs, n.n: a play-house, theatre. [PLAY-hoos]

wyrt-tūn

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Hana Videen

wyrt-tūn, m.n: garden. (WUERT-TOON / ˈwyrt-ˌtuːn)

E120839b — 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

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Hana Videen

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

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Hana Videen

sunn-bearu, m.n: a sunny grove. [SUN-BEH-ah-roo]

sunn-feld

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Hana Videen

sunn-feld, m.n: Elysium (the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology; paradise). [SUN-feld]

þerscold

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Hana Videen

þerscold, m.n: a threshold. [THER-shold]

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