dwild
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English dwild (“error, heresy”).
Noun edit
dwild (plural dwild or dwilde or dwilden)
- false belief, heresy, error
- Nu wærð swa mycel dwyld on Cristen dom swa it næfre ær ne wæs. — Peterborough Chronicle, 1131
- an illusion, a false omen
- Feole dwild wearen ge seogen and ge heord — Peterborough Chronicle, 1122
References edit
- Middle English Dictionary
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dwild n
Declension edit
Declension of dwild (strong a-stem)
Synonyms edit
- ġedwild n
References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “DWILD”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.