Afor

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

afor

l. āfor. Dele Goth. abrs, and add: I. bitter to the taste, acid, sour :-- Āuur (suur?) lēc acerbum cepe, Germ. 394, 262. Gedō tō þām hunige emfela ecedes þæs ne sié swīþe āfor ne swīde swēte . . . and ne sié on bergnesse tō sweotol þæs ecedes āfre scearpnes. Lch. ii. 224, 17-22. Ne scearp ne tō āfor (δριμυpsili;) . . . þā scearpan āfran þing (ταpsili; στUNCERTAINφοντυpsili;) sint tō fleónne, 210, 20, 29. Swēte wīn sēl mylt þonne ꝥ āfre, 196, 25. Por and cawel and eal þā þe sȳn āfer, 26, 18. Swā hwylce þincg swā syndon āfore odde bitere, i. 310, 12. II. bitter, of complaint, &c. :-- Mid biterum (āfrum) heófum amaris questibus, An. Ox. 2828. III. severe in its operation, of a remedy :-- Gehwæ-þeres sceal mon nyttian and miscian, ꝥ þone līchoman hǣle and ǣfer mægen hæbbe. Lch. ii. 22, 7. Gif se maga þæs ne fēle, lege ōþra on-legena on strengran and āferran, 192, 21. [O. H. Ger. eivar acerbus, amarus.] a-for,afor