Wæstmbǽrness
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wæstmbǽrness
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- wæstmbǽrness
- f. Fruitfulness, fertility, produktivity:--Wæst[m]-bérnys fertilita, Wrt. Voc. i. 76, 80. Wæstmbǽrnes fertilitas, i. habundantia, ii. 147, 77. Wæstmbǽrne[s] ubertas, 151, 33. Wæstembiornis fertilitas, Txts. 180, 19. (1) referring to inanimate things:--Wæstm-bǽrnys on eorþan, Homl. Skt. ii. 28, 162. Hí héton secgan ðysses landes wæstmbǽrnysse (insulae fertilitatem), Bd. 1, 15; S. 483, 15: Homl. Th. i. 286, 19. Wæstmbǽrnesse, Ors. 1, 5; Swt. 34, 9. (2) referring to living creatures:--Nis on nánum óðrum men mægðhád, gif ðǽr bið wæstmbǽrnys, ne wæstmbǽrnys, gif ðǽr bið ansund mægðhád, Homl. Th. i. 438, 27. Hé him geheóld wæstmbǽrnysse tuddres (fecunditatem sobolis), Bd. 1, 27; S. 493, 8.