Wiln,e

According to the Old English Dictionary:

wiln,e

f. A maid-servant, a hand-maid :-- Mīn wyln (wiln, ) mea ancilla, mīnre wylne meae ancillae, mīne wylne meam ancillam, mine wylna meae ancillae, minra wylna tnearum ancillarum, Ælfc. Gr. 15 ; Zup. 100, 20-101, 7. Wyln ancilla, serva, abra, dula, Wrt. Voc. i. 50, 14: 73, 2. Þīnen, wyln abra, i. ancilla, 17, 26. Heó ȳs dīn wyln (ancilla) under dī dinre handa; þreá hig lōca hū dūwylle. Gen. 16, 6. Seó sāwl is ðæs flǣsces hlǣfdige, and hire gedafnaþ dæt heó simle gewylde da wylne, dæt is dæt flǣsc, tō hyre hǣsum. Þwyrlīce færd æt dam hūse dǣr seó wyln bid dære hlǣfdian wissigend, and seó hlæfdige bid dære wylne underdeódd, Homl. Skt. i. 17, 8. 12. Oft on ānre tīde. ācend seó cwēn and seó wyln . . . and dære wylne sunu wunaþ eal his līf on deówte, Homl. Th. i. no, 27: Gen. 21, 13. Ne wilna dū dīnes nēhstan wylne, Ex. 20, 17. Gif wíffæst man hine forlícge be his ágenre wyhie, L. C. S. 55; Th. i. 406, 14. Ādō dās wylne (ancillam) heonon, Gen. 21, 10: Ex. 21, 20, 32. Hē genam wealas and wylna (servos et ancillas), Gen. 20, 14: Lev. 25, 44. v. wealh. wiln

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