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wille

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
wille, wielle, welle, wylle, an ; f.
A well, spring, stream, fountain (lit. and fig. )
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  • An wielle weól blóde

    flumen sanguine effluxit

    ,
      Ors. 4, 7 ; Swt. 184, 21.

  • Welle

    fontana

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 149, 79.

  • Ðǽr com upp wærtres welle,

      Shrn. 93, 36.

  • Seó wylle

    fluvius

    ,
      Bd. I. 7 ; S. 478, 29.

  • Is sǽd ðæt wylle (án welle,

    v. l.) (fons )

    áweólle, seó wæter geóteþ,
      5, lo ; S. 625, 23.

  • Lífes wylle (waelle, Ps. Surt.)

    fons vitae

    ,
      Ps. Th. 35, 9: Basil admn. 4; Hex. 42, 16.

  • Ealle ða námon Ændor wylle and Cisone clǽne hlimme,

      Ps. Th. 82, 8.

  • Waelle léhtes

    fons luminis

    ,
      Ps. Surt. ii. p. 200, 35.

  • Uselle

    fons

    ,
      Jn. Skt. Lind. 4, 6.

  • On saltere wellan; of saltere wellan,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 206, 31.

  • In fúle wellan; of ðære wellan,

      366, 31,

  • Swáculfre ðonne heó baðaþ hí on smyltum wætre on hlúttere wællan

      , Shrn. 85, 22.

  • Ða hálwendan wellan (

    fonte

    ) fulwihles bæþes, .
      Bd. 2, 6; S, 507, 17.

  • Wyllan, 3, 22; S. 552, 35: 4, 13; S. 582, 13. . Hí druncon burnan wæter, calde wellan

    potum dabat lubricus amnis

    ,
      Met. 8, 29.

  • Of denum yrnaþ deópe wyllan (wællan

    fontes

    ,
      Ps. Surt.), Ps. Th. 3, 10.

  • In stówum ðǽr ðe hlúttre wyllan (

    lucidi fontes

    ) urnon,
      Bd. 2, 16; S. 520, 4.

  • Tó wællum wætra

    ad fontes aquarum

    ,
      Ps. Surt. 41, 2.

  • On cwicu wǽteres wellan

    in fontes aquarum

    ,
      Ps. Th. 113, 8.

  • Hé him forlét feówer wellan sceótan (

    the reference is to the milk from a cow's udder'

    ),
      Exon. Th. 419, 26; Rä. 39, 3.
v. ed-, sealt-wille.
Etymology
[Cf. O. H. Ger. wella fluctus, unda: Icel. vella boiling heat.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wille.” 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/35775.

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