Flís

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

flís

Take here flýs in Dict. , and add: (1) fleece of a sheep :-- Swá miclum sníwde swelce micel flýs feóll cadere in modum uellerum immense ceperunt nines, Nar. 23, 13. Flýs uellera, An. Ox. 5192. Flýss, 5207. Uullan fliásum, Txts. 150, 3. (2) used of other animals :-- Twégen seólas mid heora flýse his fét drýgdon, Hml. Th. ii. 138, 12. (3) wool, down :-- Flýse lanugine, Wrt. Voc. ii. 51, 64. (4) what resembles, or serves the purpose of, a fleece :-- Hié of sunnan treówcynne and of his leáfum and of his flýse þæs treówes spurmon and tó godewebbe wǽfon foliis arborum ex siluestri uellere uestes detexunt, Nar. 6, 17.

Mots connexes: wull-fleós (-flýs). flis