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ge-wyrce

  • noun [ neuter ]
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ge-wyrce, es; n.
work, forming, v. ge-wyrcan;
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  • Gewyrce plastica (in rerum visibilium

    plastica

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      Ald. 75, 34), Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 35.
what is got by work, profit, perquisite, v. ge-wyrcan;
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  • Ǽhteswán gebyreð stífearh, and his gewirce ðonne hé spic behworfen hæfð,

      Ll. Th. i. 436, 23.
  • Gýme swán ꝥ hé æfter sticunge his slyhtswýn wel behweorfe, sæncge; ðonne bið hé ful wel gewyrces wyrðe, 17. [The nature of the perquisite may be illustrated from later documents. The swineherd of Glastonbury Abbey received as perquisite one sucking-pig a year, the entrails of the best pig, and the tails of all the others which were slaughtered in the Abbey, v. Andrews's Old English Manor. p. 211 note.]
Etymology
[Goth. ga-waurki negotium; quaestus, lucrum : O. H. Ger. ge-wurchi operatio, textus: cf. Icel. yrki work: O. Sax. gi-wirki.]
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v.  ge-wirce wyrce.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-wyrce.” 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/50631.

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