Ticia

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ticia

According to the Old English Dictionary:

an;

ticia
n. A tick (an insect infesting animals):--Ticia ricinus, Txts. 109, 1130. [A teke ascarida, Wrt. Voc. i. 255, col. 1 (15th cent.). A tyke, Wülck. Gl. 566, 18. Tyke, wyrm, Prompt. ParO. Du. teke: M. H. Ger. zeche, zecke: Ger. zecke. Cf. the borrowed Romance forms, Fr. tique: Ital. zecca.] ticia

Related words: 493. To fles ant to fleye, to tyke ant to tadde, P. S. 238, 4.

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