Ge-hyrstan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-hyrstan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-hyrstan
to murmur. Add: [From ge-hwistran?: for hy- = hwy-(-i) cf. ymb-hyrft = ymb-hwyrft, Mt. L. p. 1, 2; for metathesis cf. (?) gyrstan- =gestran-. The word might then be compared with whistren to whisper, and with hwǽstrian, q. v.] ge-hyrstan
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