Old English Dictionary Entry

Solor

Part of speech: soler[e?], es; Related words: Halliwell's Dict.:--Ic wilnige ðætte ðeós sprǽc stigge on ðæt ingeþonc ðæs leorneres suǽ suǽ on sume hlǽdre óððæt hió fæstlíce gestonde on ðæm solore ðæs módes

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m. An upper chamber, a soler. until it stand firmly in the upper chamber of the mind, Past. proem.; Swt. 23, 18. Se fugel ofer heánne beám hús getimbreþ, and gewícaþ ðǽr sylf in ðam solere in that upper chamber (its nest), Exon. Th. 212, 2; Ph. 204. [Soler solarium, Wrt. Voc. i. 178, 12. Solere, 273, col. 2. Solere or lofte solarium, hectheca, Prompt. Parspecula, 187. Wicklif (Jos. 2, 6) uses the word for the flat roof of a house. O. Sax. soleri an upper room (Mk. 14, 14). O. H. Ger. soleri, solær solarium, coenaculum: Ger. söller. From Lat. solarium.] solor

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Runic Inscription

ᛋᚩᛚᚩᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Ger.: German
Lat.: Latin
O. H. Ger.: Old High German
O. Sax.: Old Saxon

Works & Authors

Exon.: Exeter Book
Mk.: Gospel of St. Mark (OE translation)
Past.: Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
Swt.: Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies

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