Word-riht
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Sächsisches Altenglisches Wörterbuch - word-riht
Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:
es;
- word-riht
- n. I. a law expressed in the form of a command (II. 6), an ordinance; or a law expressed in spoken words, a spoken law:- -- Móyses dómas, wræclíco wordriht, Cd. Th. 177, 31; Exod. 3. II. a statement of what is right; or (?) a duty which one has given his word to perform (v. word, II. 9) :-- Wígláf madelode, wordrihta fela sægde gesíðum (told them much of what they ought to do ; or (?) told them much of what they had promised to do. Cf. wégehéton, 5261; B. 2634), Beo. Th. 5256; B. word-riht