Noun: woh
Gender:
Sample Sentences
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riht and wōh (right and wrong)
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c. 897, King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care
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Sē þonne þe wilnaþ wōh tō dōnne, and wilnaþ þēah þæt þæs ōðre menn swīgiġen, hē þonne biþ him selfum ġewita þæt hē wilnaþ mā þæt hine man lufiġe þonne ryhtwīsnesse. (Someone who wants to do wrong, but wants others to be silent about it, is their own witness that they want to be loved more than they want justice.)
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c. 995, Ælfric, Ælfric's Preface to Grammar
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Miċel yfel dēþ sē unwrītere ġif hē nylle his wōh ġeryhtan. (The bad writer does a lot of harm if he refuses to correct his mistakes.)
Nouns inflected like woh
woh,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *wą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *wanhaz. Akin to Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃 (unwāhs, “blameless”).
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