Old English Dictionary Entry

Stól

Part of speech: es ; Related words: arce- (erce-), arcebiscop-, biscop-, brego-, cyne- , ealdor-, Eoforwíc-, éðel-, fealde-, friþ-, frum-, gang-, gebed-, gif-, gleow-, gum-, heáfod-, heofon-, hleów-, rodor-, þeóden-, yrfe-stól. stol

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1 stól

m. I. a stool, seat :--Stool tripes, Wrt. Voc. ii. 122, 75. Gewyrc stól of þrím treówum . . . geót under ðone stól, Lchdm. ii. 76, 21-24. Man sceal habban . . . sceamelas, stólas, Anglia ix. 264, 21. II. the seat (lit. and fig.) of one in authority, the throne of a king, see of a bishop :--Sóna se stól (the throne) scylfþ, L. I. P. 4 ; Th. ii. 308, 1. Stóles cathedrae (pontificalis), Hpt. Gl. 454, 33. Se sit swelce hé sitte on ðæm stóle ðæs forhwierfdan gemótes . . . Se biþ beforan ðe on ðæm stóle sitt ðǽ;m óðrum ðe ðǽr ymb stondaþ, Past. 56 ; Swt. 435, 24-28. Heofnes Wealdend ðe siteþ on ðam hálgan stóle, Cd. Th. 17, 16 ; Gen. 260 : 19, 33 ; Gen. 300. Hú hé him strenglícran stól ge-worhte, 18, 15 ; Gen. 273. Geseón selfes stól herran ðínes, 36, 4 ; Gen. 566. Ofer stól super cathedram (Mosi), Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 23, 2. [Goth. stóls a seat, throne : O. Sax. O. Frs. stól : O. H. Ger. stól, stuol sedes, sella, thronus : Icel. stóll a seat, throne, see.]

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Runic Inscription

ᛋᛏᚩᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Ger.: German
Icel.: Icelandic
L.: Latin
O. Frs.: Old Frisian
O. H. Ger.: Old High German
O. Sax.: Old Saxon

Works & Authors

Cd.: Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Gen.: Genesis (OE poem)
Mt.: Gospel of St. Matthew (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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