Wyrgan

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

wyrgan

p. de To worry (as an animal does), strangle, throttle :-- Wyrgeþ vel smoraþ st[r]angulat, Wrt. Voc. ii. 121, 32. [Wolwes þat wald worow men (the whilke wol a man strangly and destrye, ), Pr. C. 1229. Ilc wirwed lay, als it were dogges þat weren henged, Havel. 1921. Werewed, 1915. A wolf wolde lambes wery, R. R. 6267. Wolues that wyryeþ (wyrhyeþ, v. l.) men, Piers P. C. 10, 226. Wyrwyn, worowen strangulo, suffoco, Prompt. Parv. 530. O. Frs. wergia : O. H. Ger. wurgen strangulare, suffocare. Cf. O. Sax. wurgil a halter : O. L. Ger. wurgarín strangulatrix.] v. á-wyrgan. wyrgan

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