Healm

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

healm

For II substitute I a below, and add: I. in a collective sense, stubble, straw :-- Hég foenum, healm stipula, Wrt. Voc. i. 289, 46. Healm stramen spicarum, ii. 137, 48. Swá hwylc man swá ofer þisne staþol seteð . . . híg oððe healm (stipulam) . . . þeáh þe ꝥ híg and ꝥ healm forbyrne, Gr. D. 328, 23-27. Wið liðseáwe, genim bereu UNCERTAIN healm, Lch. ii. 134, 2. Sete hié swé swé halm (stipulam) biforan onsiéne windes, Ps. Srt. 82, 14: ii. p. 187, 26. Ðæt halm paleas, Lk. R. 3, 17. Ia. stubble as representing the arable land from which a crop has been gathered :-- Ciricsceat mon sceal ágifan tó ðám healme and tó ðám heorðe (according to the amount of cultivated arable land and to the kind of house. But the old Latin version has: A culmine et mansione) ðe se mon on bíþ UNCERTAIN tó middum wintra, Ll. Th. i. 140, 13. II. a straw, stalk :-- Eár spica, egla arista, healm culmus, codd folliculus, Wrt. Voc. i. 38, 49: 67, 36. Healm vel stela culmus, ii. 137, 48. Ðá halm geberned paleas comburet, Lk. L. 3, 17. Ða halmas, Mt. L. 3, 12.

Verwandte Wörter: bere-, hwǽ-healm. healm