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sealf

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
sealf, e: sealfe, an (?); f.
Wright's OE grammar
§64; §367;
Salve, ointment
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  • Salf, salb

    malagma,

      Txts. 77, 127.
  • Sealf,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 68, 6.
  • Smyrels

    vel sealf unguina vel unguenta, 49, 29. Fota, i. confortata vel

    sealf, ii.
      149, 76.
  • Smyrels oððe sealfe

    unguentum,

    i.
      74, 8.
  • Sealfe

    nardi,

      Hpt. Gl. 517, 28.
  • For hwí wæs ðisse sealfe forspillednes? Ðeós sealf mihte beón geseald,

      Mk. Skt. 14, 4, 5: Jn. Skt. 12, 3, 5.
  • Wyrc tó salfe (sealfe,

      MSS. H. B.), Lchdm. i. 110, 18.
  • Sealfe

    fotu,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 90, 74.
  • Lǽcedómnessa oððe sealfe

    cataplasma,

      18, 31.
Etymology
[O. Sax. salƀa: O. H. Ger. salb and salba (gen. -a and -un) unctio, unguentum, malagma, cataplasma.]
Similar entries
v. bæþ-, bán-, ciper-, cú-, dolh-, eág-, eár-, ele-, múþ-, sceáde-, smeoru-, tóþ-, weax-, weax*-*hláf-, wen-sealf.
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v.  salf.
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  • sealf, n.