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]

fȳr

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Hana Videen

fȳr, n.n: fire. (FUER / ˈfyːr)

A badly damaged piece of medieval parchment attached to modern paper; what remains of the parchment has an illustration of a red-orange lion. — Otho-Corpus Gospels, badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731; N England (Northumbria), late 7th-early 8th century; British Library, Cotton MS Otho C V, f. 27r. [bl.uk]

heofon-biggend

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Hana Videen

heofon-biggend, m.n: dweller in heaven. (HEH-oh-von-BIH-yend / ˈhɛɔ-vɔn-ˌbɪj-jɛnd)

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mete

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Hana Videen

mete, m.n: food. (MEH-tuh / ˈmɛ-tə)

Medieval manuscript image of five people including a man wearing a crown standing behind a long, narrow table covered with dishes containing food and drink. — Lancelot-Grail (Prose Vulgate Cycle); N France (Saint-Omer or Tournai), 1316; British Library, Add MS 10293, f. 376r. [bl.uk]

tīn-wintre

Posted on January 10, 2022 by Hana Videen

tīn-wintre, adj: ten years old; ten years long. (TEEN-WIN-truh / ˈtiːn-ˌwɪn-trə)

be-wlātung

Posted on January 9, 2022 by Hana Videen

be-wlātung, f.n: show, sight, pageant. (beh-W’LAH-tung / bɛ-ˈwlaː-tʌŋ)

Medieval manuscript image of three children watching a puppet show. — Romance of Alexander; Flemish, 1338-1410; Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, f. 54v. [digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk]

wrēgan

Posted on January 8, 2022 by Hana Videen

wrēgan, wk.v: to rouse, excite. (WRAY-gahn / ˈwreː-gan)

sundor-sprǣc

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Hana Videen

sundor-sprǣc, f.n: where a single person speaks privately with one or more, private speech, a private conversation; where many speak in private, a private conference, council. (SUN-dor-SPRATCH / ˈsʌn-dɔr-ˌspræːtʃ)

þrī

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Hana Videen

þrī, n/adj/numeral: three. (THREE / ˈθriː)

Medieval manuscript initial D, inside of which is a scene of two crowned men bearing gifts, one of them pointing upward, both standing behind the third, eldest man who removes the crown from his head and raises a gift to the extended hands of the haloed baby who is seated on the lap of a haloed and crowned woman. — Book of Hours; France (possibly Thérouanne), c. 1300; Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.60, f. 8r. [ica.themorgan.org]

efes

Posted on January 5, 2022 by Hana Videen

efes, f.n: eaves of a house, a brim, brink, edge, side. (EH-vess / ˈɛ-vɛs)

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