Wæstm-berende

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

wæstm-berende

adj. Fruit-bearing, fertile, fruitful, productive, (1) referring to inanimate things:--Se dǽl se ðæt flód ne grétte ys gyt wæstm-berende on ǽlces cynnes blǽdum, Ors. 1, 3; Swt. 32, 13. Seó wæstm-berendeste (fertilissima) eorþe, Nar. 5, 20. (2) referring to living creatures:--Mid ðý ne is ǽnig syn wæstmbærendes (-beorendes, M. 74, 24) líchoman cum non sit culpa aliqua foecunditas Dafnis, Bd. 1, 27; S. 493, 2. (3) figurative:--Hé wæs gefultumiende ðæt heora lár wǽre wæstmberende ipse praedicationem ut fructificaret adjuvans, Bd. 2, 1; S. 501, 38. Ðone æþelan Albanum seó wæstmberende (fecunda) Bryton forþbereþ, 1, 7; S. 476, 34. Woestimberende fructiferum, Rtl. 34, 14. Ðá wǽron ða wæstmberendan breóst ðæs eádigan weres mid ðam láreówdóme ðæs heán magistres Godes gefyllede, Guthl. 2; Gdwin. 18, 8. wæstm-berende