A.-S.
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There are numerous examples of the A.-S. period.
From Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850 by Various
Thri, A.-S., three, is mentioned in a charter dated 855 as the name of a villa, now the hamlet Drie, near Ermelo.
From Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
"Had we not the A.-S. dæges-eage, we could hardly refuse to admit that this last is a far more obvious and probable explanation of the word than the pretty poetical thought conveyed in Day's-eye."
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
The term bleaching is derived from the A.-S. blaecan, to bleach, or to fade, from which also comes the cognate German word bleichen, to whiten or render pale.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
The word "harbor" is from A.-S. here, army, and beorg, a refuge.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
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