Old English Dictionary Entry

Wīg-hūs

Part of speech: , es;

Definitions

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1 wīg-hūs

n. (in Wrt. Voc. i. 36, 41 it is masc.) A war-house, a tower, fortification :-- Ðis wīghūs haec arx, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 75; Zup. 73, 14: 3 ; Zup. 7, 9. Se hīhsta wīghūs arx, Wrt. Voc. i. 36, 41. Wīghūs propugnaculum, Hpt. Gl. 499, 61. On ǣlcurn ylpe wæs ān wīghūs getimbrod, and on ǣlcum wīghūse wǣron þrittig manna, Homl. Skt. ii. 25, 561. Wīghūses turris, Wrt. Voc. ii. 84, 28. Wīghūs propugnacula, i. 36, 40. Wīghūsum turribus, ii. 91, 25: Ps. Th. 47, ii: Past. 33; Swt. 2 29, 5. Se weall is mid stǣnenum wīghūsum (habitaculis defensorum) beworht, Ors. 2, 4; Swt. 74, 21. Menn wyrcaþ wīghūs him (elephants) on uppan, and of dām feohtaþ, Hex. 9 ; Norm. 16, II. [O. H. Ger. wīc-hūs turris, propugnaculum.] wig-hus

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Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᚷ-ᚻᚢᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Ger.: German

Works & Authors

Gr.: Ælfric's Grammar
Ors.: Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
Past.: Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
Ps.: Psalms (OE)
Swt.: Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.: Ælfric

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