Hwerf-líc

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hwerf-líc

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hwerf-líc
adj. Changeable, shifting, not enduring :-- Hú hwerflíce ðás woruldsǽlþa sint quam sit mortalium rerum misera beatitudo, Bt. 11, 1; Fox 32, 37. [O. H. Ger. hwarb-, hwerb-líh versatilis, volubilis: cf. Icel. hwerfull shifty, changeable] adj. hwerf-lic

Related words: hwearf;

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