Noun: wos
Gender:
Sample Sentences
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Leech Book, Leech Book, Volume I, Fiveleaf, or Cinquefoil. III.
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Wiþ ǣlces dæġes mannes tȳddernysse inneweardes, nime þonne weġbrǣdan, dō on wīn and sūp þ wōs and et þā weġbrǣdan; ðonne dēah hit wið ǣġhwylcre innancundre unhǣlo. (For every days tenderness of a man inwardly, let him take then waybread, put it in wine, and sip the juice and eat the waybread; then it is good for any inward unheal (infirmity).)
Nouns inflected like wos
mos,
wos,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *wōs, from Proto-Germanic *wōsą, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow”). Akin to Middle Low German wose (“foam; froth”), Old English wāse (“marsh; mire”). See: Old English Nouns '
wāse'.
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