Ge-swope (?, -swópe?)

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-swope (?, -swópe?)

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-swope (?, -swópe?)
sweepings, rubbish: -- Gaesuope peripsima, Txts. 111, 15. Gisupop ( = suopo? the vowel being replaced by the consonant following it in the alphabet, a not unfrequent device, and o put for p to avoid three consecutive p's) peripsima superhabundans, pur-gamenta, Hpt. 33, 250, 15. [Cf. O. H. Ger. ga-sopho peripsima, ga-sopha quisquiliae, purgamenta.]

Related words: ge-swǽpa. ge-swope

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