Hweorfa

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

hweorfa

Add: I. a joint, vertebra, popliies et genua, Lch. i. lxxiv, 20. II. the whorl of a spindle, v. hweorf :-- Hwyorfa vertigo (among words connected with spinning). Wrt. Voc. i. 59, 23. ¶ Here probably belong the two glosses:-- Hweorfan molam, Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 1: 57, 13. The passage glossed is: Si parcae . . . mortale vitae fusaque rotante minantur, quod vehet in collo tereti vertigine molem, Ald. 175, 35. To vertigine, UNCERTAIN not to molem (wrongly written molam) must belong the gloss, hweorfan. hweorfa

Parole correlate: hweorf-bán :-- Þá hweorfan and ðá cneó