Páwa

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - páwa

According to the Old English Dictionary:

peá, an;

páwa
m. : páwe, an; f. Peacock, peahen :-- Páwa pavo, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 3 ; Som. 8, 34, Pauua, Txts. 90, 826. Pawa, Wrt. Voc. i. 77, 24. Páwe, pavo, pavus, 29, 4. Fuglas ða ðe heard flǽsc habbaþ, páwa, swan, æned, Lchdm. ii. 196, 19. On ðære ylcan stówe byþ óðer fugelcynn fenix hátte ða habbaþ cambas on heáfde swá páwan in eo monte est avis fenix que habet cristas quasi orbes pavonis, Nar. 39, 4. Se fugel (the phenix) is onlícost peán, Exon. Th. 219, 25; Ph. 312. [A pruest proud as a po, Pol. Songs, 159, 15 : Wick. poos ; pl.: O. H. Ger. pfáwo : Icel. pá or pái (as a nickname). From Latin.] pawa
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