Frymþ

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - frymþ

According to the Old English Dictionary:

frumþ, es;

frymþ
m: e; f. [frum original, first] A beginning, foundation, origin, first-fruits; inĭtium, princĭpium, constĭtūtio, ŏrigo, prīmĭtiæ :-- Næs his frymþ ǽfre his origin never was, Exon. 65 a; Th. 240, 12; Ph. 637. Ic sprece fóresetnyssa fram frymþe lŏquar propŏsĭtiōnes ab inĭtio, Ps. Lamb. 77, 2: Ps. Spl. 101, 26: Mt. Bos. 19, 8: Lk. Bos. 1, 2. Sceal seó wyrd swá ðeáh forþsteallian, swá ic ðé æt frymþe gehét that event shall yet come to pass, as I promised thee at the beginning, Cd. 109; Th. 144, 16; Gen. 2390: 6; Th. 8, 30; Gen. 132: 174; Th. 218, 6; Dan. 35: Bt. Met. Fox 11, 75; Met. 11, 38: 13, 25; Met. 13, 13: Ps. Th. 70, 4: 104, 24. Of middangeardes frymþe a constĭtūtiōne mundi, Mt. Bos. 25, 34: Bd. de nat. rerum; Wrt. popl. science 13, 29: Lchdm. iii. 264, 10. Heó of ðære ylcan mǽgþe Eást-Engla líchoman frymþe lǽdde de provincia eōrumdem Orientālium Anglōrum ipsa carnis orīgĭnem duxĕrat, Bd. 4, 19; S. 590, 8. Frymþas prīmĭtiæ, Scint. Lye. Gefreoða úsic, frymþa Scyppend protect us, Creator of beginnings! Exon. 65 a; Th. 239, 32; Ph. 630: 44 b; Th. 151, 9; Gú. 792: Elen. Kmbl. 1002; El. 502. [Orm. frummþe.] frymþ
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