Old English Dictionary Entry

HREÓD

Part of speech: es;

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1 HREÓD

n. A REED :-- Hwí férde gé on wéstene geseón ðæt hreód ðe byþ mid winde ástyred quid existis in desertum videre harundinem vento moverí, Lk. Skt. 7, 24: Mt. Kmbl. 11, 7. For cynegyrde him hreód forgeáfon gave him a reed for a sceptre, Homl. Th. ii. 252, 27. Hreódes spír a spike of a reed, L. M. 2, 51; Lchdm. ii. 266, 10. Grównys hreódes and ricsa viror calami et junci, Bd. 3, 23; S. 554, 23. Synd ðǽr manige eáland and hreód there are there many islands and reeds, Guthl. 3; Gdwin. 20, 6. [O. Dutch ried: O. H. Ger. reod, ried, riet carectum, carex.] hreod

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Ger.: German
L.: Latin
O. H. Ger.: Old High German

Works & Authors

Bd.: Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Lk.: Gospel of St. Luke (OE translation)
Mt.: Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
S.: Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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