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west-dǽl

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
west-dǽl, es; m.
a western part, the extreme western point
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  • Westdǽles

    Hesperiae

    ,
      Hpt. Gl. 466, 67.

  • Manega cumaþ fram eástdǽle middangeardes, and fram westdǽle tó heofenan ríce . . . Þurh ða twégen dǽlas, eástdǽl and westdǽl, sind getácnode ða feówer hwemmas ealles middangeardes,

      Homl. Th. i. 130, 17-21.

  • Ðín ofspring byð fram eástdǽle óð westdǽle,

      Gen. 28, 14.

  • Se heofon tóbyrst from ðæm eástdæle óþ ðone westdǽl,

      Blickl. Homl. 93, 23 : Mt. Kmbl. 24, 27.

  • Hé gesealde him westdǽl middaneardes,

      Bd. 1, 6 ; S. 476, 18.

  • Ne se steorra gestígan wile westdǽl wolcna,

      Met. 29, 13.

  • Tungol beóþ gewiten under waþeman westdǽlas on,

      Exon. Th. 204, 14; Ph. 97.
the west
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  • Beheald . . . tó westdǽle

    vide . . . ad occidentem,

      Gen. 13, 14: Deut. 3, 27.

  • God sende wind fram westdǽle,

      Exod. 10, 19.

  • Se steorra ne cymþ nǽfre on ðam westdǽle,

      Bt. 39, 13; Fox 232, 30.

  • Breoton is geseted betwyh norþdǽle and westdǽle

    Brittania inter septentrionem et occidentem locata est

    ,
      Bd. 1, 1 ; S. 473, 9. II a.

  • Se ðe ástáh ofer westdǽl (

    super occe um

    ),
      Ps. Spl. 67, 4.
Etymology
[Wesstdale off all þiss werelld iss Dysiss, Orm. 16406 ILLEBIGLE. Cf. O. H. Ger. wester-teil.]
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v.  eást-dǽl.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “west-dǽl.” 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/35443.

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