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Winter-líc

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adj. Of winter, winter:--Winterlíc dæg oððe niht hiemalis dies vel nox, Wrt. Voc. i. 53, 30: 76, 64. Se winterlíca wind the winter wind, Homl. Skt. i. ii. 144. Se winterlíca cyle, Lchdm. iii. 252, 3. Winterlíces cyles hybernalis algoris, Anglia xiii. 397, 461. Fram heánesse ðære winterlícan sunnan uppgange ab alto brumalis exortus, Bd. 4, 3; S. 567, 42. Tó ðam winterlícan sunnstede, Lchdm. iii. 250, 24. Hí ongynnaþ heora geár æfter hǽðenum gewunan on winterlícere tíde, 246, 16. Ða winterlícan brumalia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 41. [O. H. Ger. wintar-líh hiemalis: Icel. vetr-ligr.] winter-lic
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ᚹᛁᚾᛏᛖᚱ-ᛚᛁᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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