Sealh

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sealh

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: salig, es; Related words: E. D. S. Pub. Plant Names, p. 607):-- Salch, salh

Definitions

1 sealh

m. A sallow, sally, selly (salix, Txts. 94, 892. Sealh amera, Wrt. Voc. i. 285, 61. Seal, ii. 8, 41. Seales rinde, Lchdm. iii. 14, 2. Reádes seales leáf (red sally lythrum salicaria, Plant Names, p. 413), 58, 28. Genim sealh, ii. 18, 26: 86, 7. On salig (saligum, Ps. Lamb.: salum, Ps. Surt.: sealum. Ps. Spl.) wé úre organan up áhéngan in salicibus snspendimus organa nostra, Ps. Th. 136, 2. Salhas salices, Txts. 113, 58. Selas saliunculas, Hpt. Gl. 408, 56. [In selihes (salyhes, MS. H.), Ps. 136, 2. Chauc. salwes: Prompt. Parv. salwhe: O. H. Ger. salaha; gen. -un; f. salix, saliuncula: Ger. sahl-weide: Icel. selga (cf. selly, Yorks.); f.]

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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