Old English Dictionary Entry

Muscelle

Part of speech: muscle, muxle, musle, an;

Definitions

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1 muscelle

f. [from Latin] A muscle or mussel, a shell-fish :-- Muscle muscula, Wrt. Voc. ii. 57, 76. Muxle, i. 77, 71: geniscula, 281, 62. Mucxle, 65, 68: ii. 41, 19. Musclan scil conca, 15, 35. Of muscellan de conca, 26, 39: 75, 71: 89, 35. Musclan, Hpt. Gl. 417, 9. Hér beóþ oft numene missenlícra cynna muscule (muslena, note), Bd. 1. 1; S. 473, 17. Muslan musculos, Coll. Monast. Th. 24, 11. [O. H. Ger. muscula ; f.] muscelle

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Runic Inscription

ᛗᚢᛋᚳᛖᛚᛚᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Common Abbreviations

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Works & Authors

Bd.: Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
S.: Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies

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