Hwīt

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

hwīt

Add: I. simply of colour, white :-- Hwīt byssina, Candida, Wrt. Voc. ii. 126, 32 ; bysina, 87, 55 : candens (lilium) An. Ox. 5249. Ic gean mīnon feder . . . des hwītan horses de Leófwine mē geaf, C. D. iii. 362, 18. Þā leáf beóþ hwītran, Lch. i. 278, 15. Hægl bid hwītust corna, Rūn. 9. Ia. without substantive, white dress :-- Hwīte (cr adv.?) odde beorhte bine gescrȳdan alba aut splendida se uestire, Lch. iii. 198, 26. ¶ The weak form used substantively, the white (part) of an egg :-- On ānum ǣge . . . þæt hwīte ne bid gemenged tō dām geolcan, Hml. Th. i 40, 27. Smyre mid henne ǣges þē hwītan, Lch. iii. 50, 4. Gemeng wiþ ǣges ꝥ hwīte, ii. 74, 24. Nim ꝥ hwīta of ǣge, iii. 96, 19. II. denoting refinement or purity in material :-- Þonne ytst dū azima, ꝥ ys hwīt hlāf þǣre sīfernesse, Angl. viii. 323, 18. Hwītes hlāfes cruman, Lch. ii. 34, 21. Hwītes seolfres (cf. reád as an epithet of gold), Jos. 7, 21. Dō on hwīt sealt, Lch. ii. 94, 8 : 124, 10. II a. denoting spiritual purity :-- Hwylc is of ūs ꝥ hæbbe swā hwīte saūle swā þeós hālige Maria?, Bl. H. 147, 18. III. as an epithet of the Sunday on which white garments were worn :-- On Hwītan Sunnandæg, Chr. 1067; P. 202; 30. IV. in personal names :-- Hwīta, Hwītæ (-e), Txts. 632. Brāda hātte wæs gebūr tō Hǣdfelda, and Hwīte hātte dæs Brādan wīf . . . , seó Hwīte wæs Wynburge þridde mōdor, C. D. vi. 212, 15-18. Cf. Hwīting, ii. 3, 30. V. the word also occurs in many local names,

Mots connexes: C. D. vi. 305. v. meolc-, mēre-, þurh-hwīt. hwit