Ysel

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

e; ysle, an;

ysel

f. A spark, cinder, an ash, ember :-- Ysle favilla, Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 19: 66, 44: 284, 17: ii. 36, 53. On yslan in favillam, Hpt. Gl. 495, 31. Hé geseah hú ða ysla up flugon mid ðam smíce vidit ascendentem favillam, Gen. 19, 28. Gé syndon dust and acsan and ysela, Guthl. 5; Gdwin. 38, 23. Heora wyrtruma bið swá swá windige ysla radix eorum quasi favilla erit (ls. 5, 24), Homl. Th. ii. 322, 20. Ða yslan cineres, Exon. Th. 213, 13; Ph. 224. In onlícnesse uppástigendra yselena (ysla, ) instar favillarum ascendentium, Bd. 5, 12; S. 628, 23. Geong of ðám yselum (de favilla) eft áríseþ, Nar. 39, 7. Ic eom yslum and axum geanlícod assimilatus sum favillae et cineri (Job 30, 19), Homl. Th. ii. 456, 13. Bearwas wurdon tó axan and tó yslan, Cd. Th. 154, 9; Gen. 2553. Gebringeþ bán and yslan, ádes láfe, eft ætsomne, Exon. Th. 216, 21; Ph. 271: 236, 18; Ph. 576. [On asshen and on iselen in fauilla et cinere, O. E. Homl. ii. 65, 18. I am bot erþe ful euel and usle so blake, Allit. Pms. 60, 747. Isyl of fyre fauilla, Prompt. Parv. 266 and see note. M. H. Ger. usele; and see Grff. i. 487: Icel. usli a conflagration; a field of burning embers.] ysel

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