Seonu-wealt

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - seonu-wealt

According to the Old English Dictionary:

In the gloss at Wrt. Voc. ii. 122, 54 perhaps torosa denotes the roundness or plumpness of a muscular object. Could it be a gloss on a passage from Ovid, torosa colla boum?

seonu-wealt
I. add :-- Sinewealtre trendla tyrnincge tereti circulorum rotunditate, An. Ox. 522. II. add :-- Of sinewealtum þrǽda cliwene ex tereti filorum glomere, An. Ox. 3734. Sinewealte popelstánas rotundas lapillulos, 1813.

Related words: healf-seonuwealt. seonu-wealt

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