ysle
Middle French edit
Noun edit
ysle f (plural ysles)
- Alternative form of isle
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with Middle High German usele, üsele (“ashes”) and Icelandic usli (“conflagration, field of burning embers”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ysle f
- a spark, cinder, ash, ember
- Hē geseah hū ða ysla up flugon mid ðam smīce [Gen. 19, 28]
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- Heora wyrtruma bið swā swā windige ysla [(Is. 5, 24), Homl. Th. ii. 322, 20]
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- Ða yslan [Exon. Th. 213, 13; Ph. 224]
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- In onlīcnesse uppāstīgendra yselena [v.l. ysla] [Bd. 5, 12; S. 628, 23]
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- Ic eom yslum and axum geanlīcod [(Job 30, 19), Homl. Th. ii. 456, 13]
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- Bearwas wurdon tō axan and tō yslan [Cd. Th. 154, 9; Gen. 2553]
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- Gebringeþ bān and yslan, ādes lāfe, eft ætsomne [Exon. Th. 216, 21; Ph. 271: 236, 18; Ph. 576]
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Declension edit
Declension of ysle (weak)
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Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- Joseph Bosworth (1898) Thomas Northcote Toller, editor, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, s.v. “ysel”, page 1,300/2