geswel

Old English

Alternative forms

• ġeswell

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jeˈswel/

Noun

ġeswel n

1. swelling
2. tumor
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Þā on þām eahteoþan ġēare siþþan hēo abbudisse wæs, hēo wæs ġeuntrumod swā swā hēo ǣr witeġode, swā þæt ān ġeswel wēox on hire swūran myċel under ċynnbane...

     Then on the eighth year since she became abbotess, she was sickened as she had previously predicted, as a large tumor grew on her neck under the chinbone....

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ge-swel”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.