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pund

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
pund, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§109; §291;
A Pound.
as a weight without reference to money
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  • Án uncia stent on feówer and twentig penegum ; twelf síðon twelf penegas beóþ on ánum punde, Anglia viii. 335. 18.

    Libra

    is pund on
      Englisc, Ælfc. Gr. 50, 30; Som. 52, 8.

  • Pund

    praesorium (pressorium),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 118, 25.

  • Maria nam án pund (

    libram

    ) deórwyrðre sealfe,
      Jn. Skt. 12, 3.

  • Ðæt ísen ðe biþ tó þrímfealdum ordále, ðæt wege .iii. pund, and tó ánfaldum án pund,

      L. Edg. H. 9 ; Th. i. 260, 13.
as a money-denomination,
of English money;
a pound, 240 pence
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  • .xx. scillingas beóþ on ánum punde, and twelf síðon twentig penega byþ án pund, Anglia viii. 306, 35.

  • Gá seó wǽge wulle tó .cxx. p. (tó healfan punde,

      MS. G.), L. Edg. ii. 8 ; Th, i. 270, 3.
of other money
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  • Ánum hé sealde fif pund (

    talenta

    ),
      Mt. Kmbl. 25, 15, 16, 20, 22.

  • Hé sealde týn pund (

    mnas

    ),
      Lk. 19, 13.

  • Týn þúsend punda

    decem millia talenta,

      Mt. Kmbl.18, 24.

  • Pundes

    libelli,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 52, 53: 91, 44.
as a measure (cf. wæter-pund norma, Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 60)
a pint, ' that is, a pound of water is a pint of water, and a pint of water is a pint for all liquids,' Lchdm. ii. 402
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  • Pund eles gewihþ .xii. penegum læsse ðonne pund wætres, and pund ealoþ gewihþ .vi. penegum máre ðonne pund wætres, etc.,

      Lchdm. ii. 298, 16-26.
Etymology
[O. L. Ger. punt : O.Frs. pund : O. H. Ger. pfunt : Goth. Icel. pund. From Latin pondo.]
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v.  mund-bryce.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “pund.” 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/25390.

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