Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
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Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
_Parcæ_. Dan. _valkyrier_.
Wallande, boiling, bubbling up, A. 365. A.S. _weallan_, to boil up.
Walle-heued = well-head, spring, B. 364.
{Walt, Walte,} rolled, turned, B. 501, 1734. Prov.E. _walt_, _welt_.
A.S. _wealtian_, to roll. O.N. _vella_.
“Hit _walt_ up the wilde se.” --(T. B. 4633.)
Walter, roll, flow, B. 415, 1027; C. 142. O.Sc. _welter_, _walter_.
Dan. _vælte_, to roll. See _Walt_.
Waltereȝ, an error for watterez = waters? C. 263.
Walterande, swimming, C. 247.
Walteȝ, pours, rushes, flows, B. 364, 1037. See _Walte_, T. B. 3699,
4632.
Wame, belly. See _Wombe_.
Wamel, to wamble, C. 300. O.N. _vambla_. Dan. _vamle_, to wamble, to
create or cause a squeamishness or loathing. “_Wamelyn’_ in the
stomake. Nauseo.” “_Wamelynge_ of the stomake, Nausia.” (Prompt.
Parv.)
Wan (_pret._ of _wynne_), got, reached, A. 107; B. 140.
Wap, a step, C. 449. O.N. _vapp_. It is generally explained by a blow,
stroke, which was probably its original meaning.
“The werld wannes at a _wappe_ and the wedire gloumes.”
--(K. Alex. p. 141.)
“It (worldly wealth) wites away at a _wapp_, as the wynd turnes.”
--(_Ibid._ p. 181.)
See T. B. 207, 6405.
Wappe, to strike, knock, B. 882.
War, aware, A. 1096; crafty, B. 589. A.S. _wær_, wary. O.N. _var_.
{War, Ware,} guard, beware, B. 165, 545, 1133. A.S. _wárian_.
Warded, guarded, C. 258. A.S. _weardian_, to guard.
Ware, were, A. 151.
Warisch, protect, B. 921.
Warlaȝe, wizard, B. 1560. See _Warlow_.
Warlok, prison, C. 80.
Warlow, a monster, C. 258. A.S. _wér-loga_, a liar, a faith-breaker.
“Þe warlaȝ was wete of his wan atter.” --(T. B. 303.)
Warne, bid, C. 469.
Warnyng, _sb._ B. 1504.
{Warpe, Warpen,} cast, hurl, B. 444; ejaculate, utter, A. 879; B. 152,
213. O.N. _varpa_. A.S. _weorpan_, to throw, cast.
Warþe, a water-ford, C. 339. A.S. _warth_, _waroth_, the shore.
Wary, curse, B. 513. A.S. _wærgian_, to curse.
Waryed, accursed, B. 1716.
Wassayl, B. 1508.
{Wast, Waste,} destroy, B. 326, 431, 1178. A.S. _wéstan_.
Wasturne, a wilderness, B. 1674. _Wasterne_ signifies a desert place,
from the A.S. _wéste_, desert, barren, and _ærn_, a place.
“Methoughte I was in a wode willed myne one,
That I ne wiste no waye whedire that I scholde,
Ffore wolueȝ and whilde swynne, swykkyde bestez,
Walkede in that _wasterne_ wathes to seche.”
--(Morte Arthure, p. 270.)
Wate = wot, know, A. 502. A.S. _witan_ (_Ic wát_, _þu wást_, _he
wát_).
Water, stream, A. 107, 139; river, B. 1380.
Wauleȝ, shelterless, from the A.S. _wáh_, a wall (?), C. 262. We
should perhaps read wanleȝ = wonleȝ, hopeless, from the A.S. _wén_.
O.N. _von_. O.E. _wone_, hope.
Wawe, wave, A. 287; B. 382; C. 142. A.S. _wæg_.
Wax, increase, B. 521.
Waxlokes, waves (?), B. 1037.
Wayferand, wayfaring, B. 79.
Waykned, weakened, B. 1422. O.N. _veikr_. A.S. _wác_, weak; _wácan_,
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