Serc

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - serc

According to the Old English Dictionary:

syrc, syric, es;

serc
m.: serce, syrce, an; f. A shirt, shift, smock, tunic, sark (Scott.) :-- Loða, serc colobium, Hpt. Gl. 493, 76. Smoc vel syrc. Wrt. Voc. i. 25, 60. Syric colobium vel interula, 81, 69. Syrc suppar, interula, 59, 24. Serc armilausia, 284, 61: ii. 8, 16. Serce, 100, 77: 7, 4. Swátfáh syrce, Beo. Th. 2226; B. 1111. Ðæt hé hæbbe syric (tunicam), R. Ben. 89, 10. Genóh is munuce ðæt hé hæbbe twegen syricas (tunicas), for ðære nihtware and for ðæs reáfes þweále, 91, 3. Syrcan, gúþgewǽdo shirts of mail, Beo. Th. 458; B. 226: 673; B. 334. [Icel. serkr a shirt; hring-, járn-serkr a shirt of mail.]

Related words: beadu-, heoru-, here-, hilde-, leoþu-, líc-, under-serc (-serce). serc

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