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west

  • adjective
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Grammar
west, []; spve. west[e]mest; adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§80; §446; §557; §558;
Westerly, situated in the west
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  • Rómána onweald, se is mǽst and westmest,

      Ors. 6, 1; Swt. 252, 19.
  • On ðæm síþmestan onwalde and on ðæm westemestan. Swt. 254, 2.

  • Ðis sindon ðæs landes gemǽra ðe gebyriaþ into ðære westmestan híde,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 262, 18.

  • On ðone westmestan mylengear . . . eft on ðæm westemestan mylengeare, Cod. Dip. B. ii. 305, 23-30. ¶ westan in combination with prepositions, governing dative or adverbial :-- Be-westan Hai

    ab oriente habeas Hai,

      Gen. 12, 8.

  • Ðám folcum ðe eardiaþ be-westan Sæferne

    eis populis qui ultra amnem Sabrinam ad occidentem habitant,

      Bd. 5, 23; S. 646, 21.

  • Be-westan Sealwuda,

      Chr. 894; Erl. 92, 19 : 709; Erl. 42, 28: Ors. 1, 1 ; Swt. 22, 7, 12, 26.

  • Ðonne heóld man fyrde be-westan (cf. wonyng fer by weste,

      Chauc. Prol. 388), Chr. 1010; Erl. 144, 5.

  • On-westan ðære cyrican

    ad occidentalem ecclesiae partem

    ,
      Bd. 3, 17; S. 543, 29.

  • Is on-westan medmycel duru,

      Blickl. Homl. 127, 8.
Etymology
[Icel. vestari; cpve. ; vestastr; spve. more, most westerly.]
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “west.” 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/35432.

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