Old English Dictionary Entry

Pearroc

Part of speech: es ; Related words: 277, 11. Hié (

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1 pearroc

m. An enclosure :-- Pearroc, pearuc clatrum, Txts. 50, 224. Pearruc, Wrt. Voc. i. 34, 7. Pearruc cauea, Germ. 400, 62. On ðisum lytlum pearroce búgiaþ swíðe manega þeóda hoc ipsum brevis habitaculi septum plures incolunt nationes, Bt. 18, 2 ; Fox 62, 27. Ðis sindon ða landgemǽro. Ǽrest . . . on Bogeles pearruc; of Boceles pearruce, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. the English) bedrifon hié (the Danes) on ánne pearruc, and besǽton hié ðǽr útan, Chr. 918 ; Erl. 102, 35. Pearruca clatrorum, Hpt. Gl. 489, 75. Pearroca, Wrt. Voc. ii. 18, 63. Of pearrocum de clatris, 26, 52: 18, 62. Of pearrucum, Hpt. Gl. 484, 44 : 508, 29. Ðæs gemǽre is on eásthealfe spachrycg, on súðan plumwearding pearrocas, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i. 258, 12. [O. H. Ger. pferrih, pfarrih. From Celtic : Welsh parwg.] pearroc

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Runic Inscription

ᛈᛠᚱᚱᚩᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Ger.: German

Works & Authors

Bt.: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Chr.: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Erl.: Earle, J. (editor)
Fox: Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies

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