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wealh-stod

  • noun [ masculine ]
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wealh-stod, es; m.
An interpreter
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  • Wealhstod

    interpres,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 86, 60: Ælfc. Gr. 9, 26
      • ;
    • Zup. 51, 14.
one who serves as a medium between speakers of different languages
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  • Se cyning gerehte his witan on heora ágenum gereorde ðæs bisceopes bodunge, and wæs his wealhstod, for ðan ðe hé wel cúþe Scyttysc,

    • Homl. Skt. ii. 26, 67.

  • Walhstod,

    • Bd. 3, 3
      • ;
    • S. 526, 2.

  • Hé ( Jerome ) is se fyrmesta wealhstod betwux Hebréiscum and Grécum and Lédenwarum

    ,
    • Homl. Th. i. 436, 16.

  • Se hálga biscop hine hádode tó messepreóste, and his wealhstod tó diácone,

    • Homl. Skt. i. 3, 525.

  • Nóman hí him wealhstodas ( interpretes ) of Franclande

    ,
    • Bd. 1, 25
      • ;
    • S. 486, 23: Homl. Th. ii. 128, 19.
an interpreter of written language, a translator
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  • Ælfréd kuning wæs wealhstod ðisse béc,

    • Bt. proem.
      • ;
    • Fox viii. 1.

  • Ðæra hundseofontigra wealhstoda gesetnyssa,

    • Anglia viii. 336, 4.

  • Wealcstoda

    interpretum (praestantissimus, Hieronymus, Ald. 33)

    ,
    • Hpt. Gl. 463, 42.

  • Hié hié ( books ) wendon ðurh wíse wealhstodas on hiora ágen geðióde

    ,
    • Past. pref.
      • ;
    • Swt. 7, 4.
an interpreter of a subject, an expounder
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  • Wealhstod

    interpres (divinae legis, Ald. 64)

    ,
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 85, 79: 47, 2.

  • Lífes wealhstod,

    • Cd. Th. 211, 7
      • ;
    • Exod. 522.
a mediator
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  • Se wealhstod Godes and monna, ðæt is Crist

    Dei hominumque mediator,

    • Past. 3
      • ;
    • Swt. 33, 11.
the word occurs as a proper name
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  • Ðám folcum ðe eardiaþ be westan Sæferne is Wealhstod biscop

    eis populis qui ultra amnem Sabrinam ad occidentem habitant, Valchstod (Uual-, v. l.) episcopus,

    • Bd. 5, 23
      • ;
    • S. 646, 21.
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v.  -stod.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “wealh-stod.” 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/34781.

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