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treów

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
treów, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§52; §88; §89; §90; §169; §173; §264; §265; §278; §298; §363; §379; §562;
a tree
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  • Treów

    arbor,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 32, 26.
  • Iung treów

    arbustum,

    41.
  • Wudu silva. a. áhæáwan treów

    lignum,

      33, 56: Ælfc. Gr. 8; Zup. 31, 13.
  • Ðæt treów wæs gód tó etanne,

      Gen. 3, 6.
  • Treów (tréu, Lind. )

    arbor,

      Mt. Kmbl. 3, 10.
  • Treów (trýw, MS. B. : treó, Lind. ), 7a 17 wearð mycel treów (on treó miclum). Lind. : on tree miclum, Rush.

    factum est in arborem magnam,

      Lk. Skt. 13, 19.
  • Sunnan trió ágefeþ ondsware æt ðæm upgonge . . . and ðæt monan triów gerlice on niht dyde,

      Nar. 27, 16-19.
  • Heó genam of ðæs treówes wæstme,

      Gen. 3, 6.
  • Æppelbǽre treów westm wircende, l, 11.
  • Tree

    arborem,

      Lk. Skt. Lind. 13, 6: 19, 4.
  • Gif man óðres wudu heáweþ unáliéfedne, forgielde ǽlc greát treów mid . v. sciłł. ,

      L. Alf. pol. 12 ; Th. i. 70. 5.
  • Óftost beóþ ða treówa getealde

    feminini generis,

      Ælfc. Gr. 6 ; Zup. 20, 14: Ps. Spl. 95, 12.
  • Treówu,

      Scint. 56, 17: Ps. Th. 57, 8.
  • Ða hálgan trió sunnan and mónan . . . and óþre treów,

      Nar. 27, . 16-29.
  • Treów,

      32, 13, Triów, 28, 11.
  • Treó sceolon brǽdan,

      Exon. Th. 343, 20; On. Ex. 160.
  • Treó westmbéru

    ligna fructifera.

      Ps. Surt. 148, 9.
  • Of ðæra treówa wæstme,

      Gen. 3, 2.
  • Triówa heánnisse,

      Nar. 28, 1.
  • Betwih ðǽm rindum ðæra trió,

      27, 25.
  • Tréa

    lígnorum, Ps.

      Surt. 73, 5.
  • Tréwna

    arborum,

      Mt. Kmbl. p. 15, 9.
  • Ðæra treówa (trýwa,

      MS. B. : tréuna, Lind. ), Mt. Kmbl. 3, 10.
  • Treóna,

      Rtl. 95, 23.
  • Of ðam treówum,

      Lind. : tréum, Rush., Mk. Skt. 11, 8.
  • Sumu treówu he watrode. Past. 40; Swt. 293, 4: Nar. 27, 21.
  • Treówa,

      Gen. 1, 29.
  • Behealdaþ ealle trýwu (treówa,

      MS. A. : treó, Lind. Rush. ), Lk. Skt. 21, 29. The word occurs as the
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a material,
wood
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  • Hí worhton him anlícnyssa, sume of golde, sume of seolfre, sume of stánum, sume of treówe,

      Homl. Th. i. 22, 30.
  • Hé hét getimbrian cyrican of treówe,

      Chr. 626 ; Erl. 23, 40.
  • Hé of treówe (treó,

      Bd. M. 138, 21) cyricean getimbrede, Bd. 2, 14; S. 517, 26.
  • Monige of ðam treówe (treó,

      Bd. M. 156, 5)
    ðæs hálgan Cristes mǽles spónas nimaþ, 3, 2; S. 524, 30.
in a collective sense,
trees, a wood
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  • Ð á behídde Adam hyne on middan ðam treówe neorxena wanges

    Adam hid himself among the trees of the garden;

    in medio ligni paradisi,
      Gen. 3, 8.
  • Hé (

    the Phenix

    ] sylf bicreþ in ð æt treów innan torhte frætwe; ðǽr se wilda fugel ofer heunne beám hús getimbreþ (cf. hé heánne beám on holtwuda wunaþ, 209, 15; Ph. 171), Exon. Th. 211, 19; Ph. 200.
tree as in roof-tree, saddle-
tree, a piece of wood, a beam, log, stake, staff, cudgel
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  • Scort sineweah stall vel treów

    cilindrus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 41, 35.
  • Ðonne seó sáwl hié gedǽleþ wiþ ðone líchoman, hwylc biþ hé ðonne búton swylce stán oððe treów (

    a stone or a log).

      Blickl. Homl. 21, 27.
  • Of treówe

    de stipite.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 27, 65.
  • Gif mon mid treówe geslegen sié,

      Lchdm. ii. S. 32 : 94, 23.
  • Gé férdon mid swurdum and treówuiu mé gefón,

      Mk. Skt. 14, 48.
  • Gewyrcean tor of treówum and of mycclum beámum,

      Blickl. Homl. 187, 12.
  • Swá hwá swá getimbraþ ofer ðisum grundwealle gold, oððe seolfor, oððe treówa, Homl.

    Th. ii.

      588, 25.
  • Treówu,

      590, 13.
  • Hié námon treówu and slógon on óþerne ende ísene neglas, Ors. 4, 1; Swt. 158, 4. v. fugol-, teld-, wægn-treów. IV a. tree as in gallows-

    tree, tree

    used of the cross :-- Hǽlendes treów, Rood
      Kmbl. 50; Kr. 25.
  • Wuldres treów, 28 ; Kr. 14.
  • Ðú ðé on róde treów áhófe, Anglia xii. 506, 4: Elen. Kmbl. 411; El. 206.
  • Ðurh treów ús com líf, ðá ðá Crist hangode on róde,

      Homl. Th. ii. 240, 22.
  • v. gealg-, wulfheáfod-treów, and ród.
Etymology
[Goth. triu a tree; staff: O. Sax. trio a beam; the cross : O. Frs. tré; Icel, tré a tree; a beam; wood.]
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v.  treó tréu trýw.
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