Old English Dictionary Entry

Sealf

Part of speech: e: sealfe, an (?); Related words: bæþ-, bán-, ciper-, cú-, dolh-, eág-, eár-, ele-, múþ-, sceáde-, smeoru-, tóþ-, weax-, weax-hláf-, wen-sealf. sealf

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1 sealf

f. Salve, ointment:--Salf, salb malagma, Txts. 77, 127. Sealf, Wrt. Voc. i. 68, 6. Smyrels vel sealf unguina vel unguenta, 49, 29. Fota, i. confortata vel sealf, ii. 149, 76. Smyrels oððe sealfe unguentum, i. 74, 8. Sealfe nardi, Hpt. Gl. 517, 28. For hwí wæs ðisse sealfe forspillednes? Ðeós sealf mihte beón geseald, Mk. Skt. 14, 4, 5: Jn. Skt. 12, 3, 5. Wyrc tó salfe (sealfe, MSS. H. B.), Lchdm. i. 110, 18. Sealfe fotu, Wrt. Voc. ii. 90, 74. Lǽcedómnessa oððe sealfe cataplasma, 18, 31. [O. Sax. salba: O. H. Ger. salb and salba (gen. -a and -un) unctio, unguentum, malagma, cataplasma.]

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O. H. Ger.: Old High German

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Jn.: Gospel of St. John (OE translation)
Mk.: Gospel of St. Mark (OE translation)
Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies

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