waroþ-gewinn

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waroþ-gewinn, n.n: the strife of waves near the shore, the surge. (WA-roth-yeh-WIN / ˈwa-rɔθ-jɛ-ˌwɪn)

Medieval manuscript illustration of a monk gesturing towards a beam of wood on the shore; three monks look on from their boat in the rolling blue waves.
Bede’s Prose Life of St Cuthbert; England (Durham), late 12th century; British Library, Yates Thompson MS 26, f. 45v. [bl.uk]

dūst

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dūst, n.n: dust (of the earth); dust or ashes; what anything is reduced to by disintegration or decay; material out of which the human body is made (to which it returns and from which it will rise again). (DOOST / ˈduːst)

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