Wer

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wer

According to the Old English Dictionary:

wer
a man, [The form were also occurs :-- Gif ꝥ wíf hire were forlǽt, Mk. lo, 12. Ic were ne oncnáwe, Lk. l, 34. Cf. wer aad were =wer-gild; also the form were-wulf.] IV. add :-- Hé blissode on þam ꝥ hé his ágenre dohtor wer wæs, Ap. Th. 3, 5. [The correspondence of wer and Lat. vir seems not to hold. Cf. Angl. xxxi. 261.]

Related words: full-, wiht-, port-wer, sweord-weras. wer

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