Galluc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Galluc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: galloc, gallac, es; Related words:

Definitions

1 galluc

m. The plant comfrey; symphytum officĭnāle, Lin :-- Ðeós wyrt, ðe man confirmam, and óðrum naman galluc nemneþ, biþ cenned on mórum and on feldum, and eác on mǽdum this herb, which is called confirma, and by another name comfrey, is produced on moors and in fields, and also in meadows, Herb. 60, 1; Lchdm. i. 162, 10-12. Galluces moran roots of comfrey, Lchdm. iii. 6, 10. Genime galluc gesodenne take sodden comfrey, L. M. 1, 27; Lchdm. ii. 68, 15 : 1, 31; Lchdm ii. 74, 11 : 3, 73; Lchdm. ii. 358, 23. Galluc adriatica vel mālum terræ, Ælfc. Gl. 39; Som. 63, 70; Wrt. Voc. 30, 22 : 79, 17. Galloc galla, Glos. Brux. Recd. 41, 46; Wrt. Voc. 67, 61. Gallac symphytum, 42, 14; Wrt. Voc. 68, 29. galluc

Runic Inscription

ᚷᚪᛚᛚᚢᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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