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Port
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Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Noun
Gender: Masculine
Port
, es ; m. The name attributed to one of the Saxon invaders of Britain, apparently an inference from a place-name :-- Hér cuom Port on Bretene ... on ðære stówe ðe is gecueden Portesmúþa, Chr. 501 ; Erl. 14, 12.
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. II. add :-- Hé cleacode swíðe earhlíce tó porte (Ephesus) . . . Þá hé fulgehende wið ðæs portes geate eóde, Hml. S. 23, 493-498. Hí sumne man ofslógon of þám porte (Dover), Chr. 1052; P. 173, 25. Hí hergodon and bærndon on Wiðreceastrescíre forð þ̵ hí cómon tó porte sylfan (Worcester), and woldon ðæne port bærnen, 1087; P. 223, 13. II a. town as opposed to country :-- Hé beád þ̵ ǽlc man þe wǽre unníðing sceolde cuman tó him of porte and of uppelande, Chr. 1087; P. 224, 34. v. heáfod-port.
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