æmyrge
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *aimuzjǭ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ǣmyrġe f
- ember
- c. 9th century, Bald's Leechbook, published in Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest (1865, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green), edited and with translations by Oswald Cockayne, volume 3, page 30
- Ġif se uīc weonðe on mannes setle geseten, þonne nim ðu clātan moran þa grēatan .III. oððe .IIII. ⁊ berēc hȳ on hāte ǣmerġean...
- If the "fig"-swelling becomes lodged on a man's rump, then take three or four of the great roots of burdock and smoke them on the hot embers...
- c. 9th century, Bald's Leechbook, published in Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest (1865, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green), edited and with translations by Oswald Cockayne, volume 3, page 30
Declension edit
Declension of æmyrge (weak)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ǽmerge”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.