Wúsc-bearn

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wúsc-bearn

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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wúsc-bearn
n. A beloved or an adopted child :-- Uúscbearn (wuso, Rush.) filioli, Jn. Skt. Lind. 13, 33. [Cf. Icel. óska-barn a chosen, adopted child; ósk-mógr a beloved son : M. H. Ger. wunsch-kint; see Grmm. D. M. p. 139 (Stallybrass' trans.), and s.

Related words: wunsch. Cf. too the proper name Wúsc-freá, Bd. 2, 14; S. 518, 1.] v. wýsc. wusc-bearn

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