Þearm-gewind

Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon de Bosworth & Toller - þearm-gewind

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

-wind, es;

þearm-gewind
m. The words seem to mean 'that which enwraps the intestines,' cf. plecta wǽfelsa, gewynde, Hpt. Gl. 462, 64, but they are used to gloss jugulam (-um?), so should mean the collar-bone, or the hollow part of the neck above the collar-bone, or the throat :-- Gescyld ðearmgewind (ðearmwind, lxxiv, 24), breóstbán, breóst tege jugulam, pectusculum, mamillas, Lchdm. i. lxxii, 1. þearm-gewind
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