Wearte

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wearte

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; weart(?), e; Related words:

Definitions

1 wearte

f. A wart :-- Uearte, uuertae, uaertae berruca, Txts. 45, 288. Wearte, Wrt. Voc. ii. 11, 4: 126, 2. Wearte, uueartae, uearte papula, Txts. 83, 1485. Wearte, Wrt. Voc. i. 288, 73: ii. 67, 57. Wearte, uueartae, uuertae verruca, Txts. 105, 2088. Wearte verruca ... weartena (-e, MS.) heáp satiriasis, Wrt. Voc. i. 20, 7, 9. Wearte vel býl furunculus, ii. 151, 75. Wearte (pl.?) býle frunculas (- us?), 151, 34. Wið weartan, genim ðysse wyrte meolc, dó tó ðære weartan, hit ða weartan gehǽleþ, Lchdm. i. 224, 6-8: 130, 20-21. Wiþ weartum ... dó on ða weartan, ii. 148, 26: 322, 12. Wiþ weartan ... lege tó ðám weartan, hé hý fornimeþ, i. 256, 1-2. Wearras and weartan on weg tó dónne ... wrið on ða weartan and on ða wearras, 362, 17. Wið scurfedum nægle, nim gecyrnadne sticcan, sete on ðone nægl wið ða wearta (-an ?), ii. 150, 5. [O.H. Ger. warta; f. verruca, papilla (the word has both strong and weak forms): Icel. varta a wart.] wearte

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ᚹᛠᚱᛏᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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