wyrt

Senses

1. plant

   Wyrta sind īeðelīca ġesċeafta and þurh winterlīcne ċiele simle forsēariaþ.

   Plants are tender creatures, and they always wither in the winter cold.

   c. 992, Ælfric, "The 16th Sunday After Pentecost"

2. vegetable

   Holus: "wyrt."

   Holus: "vegetable."

   c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

3. herb, spice

   Hire olfendas bǣron sūðerne wyrta, and dīerwierðe ġimmas, and unġerīm goldes.

   Her camels were carrying southern spices, precious gems, and endless gold.

   c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Dedication of a Church"

4. root of a plant

   Þuhte him þæt on foldan | fægre stode / wudubeam wlitig, | se wæs wyrtum fæst, / beorht on blædum. It see

   c. 950–1050. Anonymous, "Daniel (Old English poem)", in Oxford, Boleian Library, Junius 11, ll. 497–499. Reprinted in 2013, Bintley, Michael D. J.; Shapland, Michael G. (eds.), Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, p. 219. Translation from the same.

Declension · strong i-stem

Senses

1. wort (as in brewing)

Declension · strong ō-stem