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Dorn-sǽte

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Dorn-sǽte, Dor-sǽte; gen. -sǽta ; dat. > -sǽtum, -sǽton, -sǽtan; pl. m. [dor = Celt. dwr, dur water; -sǽte dwellers, inhabitants: dwellers by water]
Inhabitants or men of Dorsetshire, people of Dorsetshire in a body, DORSETSHIRE; Dorsetenses, Dorsetia
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  • Ðý ilcan geáre gefeaht Æðelhelm wið Deniscne here mid Dornsǽtum [Dorsǽtan,

    • Th. 118, 17, col. 2
      • ;
    • Dorsǽton, 119, 17, col. 1
      • ;
    • Dorsǽtum, 119, 16, col. 2
    ]

    in the same year [A. D. 837] Æthelhelm fought against the Danish army with the Dorset-men,

    • Chr. 837
      • ;
    • Th. 118, 17, col. 1
      • .

  • Mid Dornsǽtum [Dorsǽtum,

    • Th. 120, 12, col. 2,
      • 3;
    • Dorsǽton, 121, 11, col. 1, 2,
      • 3
    ]

    with the Dorset-men,

    • 845
      • ;
    • Th. 120, 12,
      • 36.

  • Alfwold was bisceop on Dorsǽtum

    Alfwold was bishop of Dorset,

    • 978
      • ;
    • Th. 232, 7, col. 1: 982
      • ;
    • Th. 234, 38: 236, 8: 1015
      • ;
    • Th. 276,
      • 13;
    • 277,
      • 13.

  • Hí up eódon into Dorsǽton [Dorsǽtan,

      Th. 247, 19
    ]

    they went up into Dorsetshire,

    • 998
      • ;
    • Th. 246, 19: Cod. Dipl. 1302
      • ;
    • A. D. 1006
      • ;
    • Kmbl. vi. 155, 6: 1334
      • ;
    • A. D. 1046
      • ;
    • Kmbl. vi. 195,
      • 31.

  • On Dorsǽtan

    in Dorsetshire,

    • Cod. Dipl. 841
      • ;
    • Kmbl. iv. 200, 26: 871
      • ;
    • Kmbl. iv. 221, 5: Chr. 1078
      • ;
    • Th. 350,
      • 17.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “Dorn-sǽte.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/7835.

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