Wara

Diccionario Anglo-Sajón de Inglés Antiguo de Bosworth & Toller - wara

Según el Diccionario de Inglés Antiguo:

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wara
m. An inhabitant. The word is used mostly in the plural, and as the second part of compounds ; but the singular in composition is found in ceaster-weara civis, Bd. 3, 22; S. 552, 32 (cf. ceaster-gewara civis, Ælfc. Gr. 5 ; Zup. 11, 16), and the independent word in the following instances :-- Heofenlícra warena supernorum civium (habitatorum), Hpt. Gl. 498, 23. Hié here samnodon ceastre (printed ceaster) warena, Andr. Kmbl. 2251 ; An. 1127. Warum civibus, Hpt. Gl. 518, 40. In composition both -waran and -ware occur (cf. Seaxe and Seaxan), and also -waras, The forms are united with common nouns, v. burh-, ceaster-, eorþ-, hell-, heofon-waran, -ware; or with proper names, native or foreign, e. g. Lunden-, Róm-waran, -ware, Bæx-warena land (cf. Bex-leá, 13), Cod. Dip. B. i. 295, 5, Cant-ware, Wiht-ware, Sodom-ware, Syr-ware: see? also Up-ware. Cf. the Icelandic Róm-verjar, and Latin forms like Angri-varii. v. -waru. wara

Palabras relacionadas: Sigel-waras.

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