Wurma

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wurma

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: wyrma, an; Related words: Ald. 75), 524, 40: Wrt. Voc. ii. 52, 48 (

Definitions

1 wurma

m.: wurme, an; f. A shell-fish from which a purple dye was obtained, a purple dye; also woad, a plant from which a dye is got :-- Wurma murex, wurma, weoloc murice, Wrt. Voc. ii. 56, 64, 62. Wurma, reád godwebb ostrum, 64, 10. Wyrma ostrum, i. 286, 34. Wurman murice, ii. 114, 46. Ungemæccre wurman dispari murice, 141, 19. Mid unilícere wurman, Hpt. Gl. 431, 42. Ungelícum wurman, Anglia xiii. 29, 58. Wolcreádum wurman bistincto cocco sive vermiculo, 29, 56. Twyhíwedum wurman, Hpt. Gl. 431, 31. Mid reádre wurman oǽroceo luto (printed wurmaman). Wurman geblonden, Exon. Th. 218, 14; Ph. 294. Wyrman murice, Wrt. Voc. ii. 77, 23: 89, 29. Wyrman (printed wyrmaman, cf. 52, 48) luto, 87, 32. Wyrman (purpureo) ostro, Hpt. Gl. 522, 5. Genim myrran and hwít récels and safinam and saluiam and wurman, Lchdm. ii. 294, 24. Wurmum muricibus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 55, 20: Hpt. Gl. 524, 27. Wurman, 431, 47. [O. Frs. worma: O. H. Ger. wurmo vermiculus.]

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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