Gesca, geocsa, geohsa, geoxa, gihsa
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gesca, geocsa, geohsa, geoxa, gihsa
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- gesca, geocsa, geohsa, geoxa, gihsa
- m. I. hiccough or sobbing :-- Gesca, iesca singultus, Txts. 97, 1865. Gescea singultum, Wrt. Voc. i. 289, 35. II. yox (hiccough :-- Gesca tentigo (cf. extentio, i. tenacitas ventris, tentigo, Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 59), Txts. 101, 1996. Hwonan se micla geoxa cume, oþþe hú his mon tilian scule . . . þonne forstent se geohsa, Lch. ii. 60, 17-23 : 25: 28 : 62, l, 9. Þám monnum þe for fylle gihsa slihð for the men that hiccough attacks on account of repletion, 60, 24. Sicetit vel gesca sláet singultat, Txts. 97, 1857. Sele him wiþ geohsan ceald wæter and eced drincan, Lch. ii. 62, 13. III. sobbing :-- Mé þiós siccetung hafað ágǽled, þes. geocsa (cf. ic nú wépende and gisciende . ; . misfó, Bt. 2 ; F. 4, 8), Met. 2, 5. v. giscian. geocsa,geoxa,geohsa,gihsa,gesca