ýce

Old English Dictionary Entry

ýce

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: hicae

Definitions

1 ýce

f.: ýce, es; m. A (poisonous) frog :-- Ýce botrax vel botraca, Wrt. Voc. i. 24, 19: botrax, 45, 26: ii. 13, 2: 126, 57: rana, 71, 15. Ýcean roboete (the passage is :-- Regulorum et aspidum venena, ad quae quadrupedis robetae et spalangii pestifera confectio humanae naturae nocitura habebatur, Ald. 25), 78, 44. Ðæt ilce biþ nyttol íces slite oþþe hundes, Lchdm. ii. 86, 2 (see note). Ðære wyrte wyrttruma on wætere geðyged wiðrǽð íceom and næddrum, i. 144, 15. Ýcan l froggan ranas, Ps. Lamb. 104, 30. ¶ Yce parruca, Wrt. Voc. ii. 67, 69, seems to be for hyce; paruca, 116, 50. [M. H. Ger. úchen ranas.] v. fen-ýce. yce

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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