Wordlian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wordlian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: wurdlian; Related words: wordlung ; wordrian. wordlian

Definitions

1 wordlian

p. ode To talk, discourse :-- Wurdliaþ (changed from wurdiaþ) rhetoricamur, loquimur, . . . snytrian l wurðlian philosophari, Hpt. Gl. 527, 58-63. Epactas ðe wíse preóstas oft ymbe gerádlíce wurdliaþ, Anglia viii. 300, 45. Hyt geríst ðæt wé ymbe ða epactas wurdlion, 305, 19: 308, 16. Se sceop in gebringþ ððre hádas, ðe wið hine wurdlion swylce hig him andswarion, 330, 43. Uton nú on Englisc ymbe ðys be dǽle wurdlian, 303, 14. [Gewurdlud vel gesprecen, 320, 16.] Wordlian sermocinari, Hpt. Gl. 461, 38. [O. H. Oer. wortalón; wortalónti verbosus ; wortalári verbosus.]

Runic Inscription

ᚹᚩᚱᛞᛚᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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