ymbhwyrft
Old English
Alternative forms
- ymhwyrft
Noun
ymbhwyrft m
- globe
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- Ūre yldran ealne ðysne ymbhwyrft ðyses middanġeardes, cwæþ Orosius, swā swā Oceanus ymbliġeð ūtan, ðone man gārsecg hāteð, on þrēo tōdǣldon....
- Our elders, said Orosius, divided into three parts, all the globe of this mid-earth, as it is surrounded by the ocean, which we call Garsecg...
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- turn, regular course
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The First Sundayin September, when Job is read"
- Sē wer wæs swīðe mǣre betwux eallum Ēasternum, and his suna fērdon and ðēnode ǣlc ōðrum mid his gōdum on ymhwyrfte æt his hūse, and þǣrto heora swustru ġelaðodon.
- The man was very great among all the Easterns, and his sons went and served each other with his goods in turn at his house, and thereto invited their sisters.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The First Sundayin September, when Job is read"
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ymb-hwyrft”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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