æmyrge
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *aimuzjǭ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈæː.myr.je/, [ˈæː.myrˠ.je]
Noun
ǣmyrġe f
- ember
- c. 9th century, Bald's Leechbook, published in Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest (1865, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green), edited and with translations by Oswald Cockayne, volume 3, page 30
- Ġif se uīc weonðe on mannes setle geseten, þonne nim ðu clātan moran þa grēatan .III. oððe .IIII. ⁊ berēc hȳ on hāte ǣmerġean...
- If the "fig"-swelling becomes lodged on a man's rump, then take three or four of the great roots of burdock and smoke them on the hot embers...
- c. 9th century, Bald's Leechbook, published in Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest (1865, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green), edited and with translations by Oswald Cockayne, volume 3, page 30
Declension
Weak feminine (n-stem):
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ǣmyrġe | ǣmyrġan |
| accusative | ǣmyrġan | ǣmyrġan |
| genitive | ǣmyrġan | ǣmyrġena |
| dative | ǣmyrġan | ǣmyrġum |
Descendants
Further reading
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ǽmerge”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.