Lǽrestre

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - lǽrestre

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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lǽrestre
f. A female teacher, an instructress, preceptress :-- Lǽrestre doctrix, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 64; Zup. 71, 8. Siððan clypode heó hire tó ða ylcan lǽrestran, Homl. Th. ii. 543, 8. [Cf. Wick. lerere: Prompt. Parv. lerare doctor, instructor: Goth. laisareis: O. H. Ger. lérari: Ger. lehrer; but the form to which these point, and which would be a masculine corresponding to lǽrestre, seems not to occur, the usual word being láreów.] lærestre
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