Swodrian

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

swodrian

p. ode To get drowsy, fall asleep:--Ic hnæppode and ic swodrode ego dormivi et soporatus sum, Ps. Spl. 3, 5. [In his chaire he sat longe . . . a lutel he bigan to swoudri as a slep him nome. Þo þoȝte him in his swoudringe þat a whit coluere com, L. S. 439, 268. Cf. A day as he wery was, and a suoddrynge him nome . . . Seyn Cutbert to him com, R. Glouc. 264, 22. Halliwell gives zwodder = drowsy, dull, as a West-country word.]

Parole correlate: swaðrian, sweðrian. swodrian