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amber

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
amber, m. f. n.
A vessel; a measure.Add:
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  • Ambaer, ember, omber

    situla,

      Txts. 96, 923.
  • Ambaer, ombar, amber

    urna,

      106, 1076.
  • Amber bodonicula (v. stoppa), Wrt. Voc. i. 288, 3:

    amphora,

    ii.
      73, 62: 9, 3.
  • Þæs wínes sý án ambur (-er,

    v. l.

    ) full,
      Lch. i. 136, 5.
  • Dó tó wóse amber fulne, ii. 106, 16.
  • Gesamna tú ambru hrýþra micgean and amber fulne holenrinda,

      Lch. ii. 332, 15.
  • Ambras cados, Wrt. Voc. ii. 102, 41: 13, 8:

    lag(uo)enas,

      53, 37.
Etymology
[Add: to cognate forms: 'Perhaps originally an adaptation of Lat. amphora, assimilated to a Teut. form and meaning,' N. E. D.]
Similar entries
v. tín-ambre; embren.
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v.  emb-rin.
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