Scirpan

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

scirpan

p. te. I. to sharpen, whet :-- Scyrpþ acuit, Engl. Stud. ix. 40. Hí hwetton (scyrptun, MS. C. ) tungan heora acuerunt linguam suam. Ps. Spl. 139, 3. Scerptun, Ps. Surt. 139, 4. II. metaph. to make active, arouse :-- Symle hé sceal his hýrmen scyrpan mid manunge tó hláfordes neóde and him eác leánian be ðam ðe hý earnian, Anglia ix. 260, 23.

Mots connexes: a-, ge-scirpan. scirpan