Wyrt

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wyrt

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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wyrt
f. Wort (in brewing) :-- Wyrt sandix (the word occurs in a list of terms 'de mensa,' and among a number denoting various kinds of drink. Cf. sandix, genus frugi, Corp. Gl. Hessels, 105, 103), Wrt. Voc. 1. 290, 64: 289, 9: ii. 87, 33. Bewylle on hwǽtene wyrte, Lchdm. ii. 268, 12. [Wurte idromellum, Wrt. Voc. i. 257, col. 2. Ger. würze: Swed. wört.]

Related words: leáh-mealt-, másc-, mealt-wyrt. wyrt

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