æmyrge

Old English

Alternative forms

• ǣmerge

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aimuzjǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæː.myr.je/, [ˈæː.myrˠ.je]

Noun

ǣmyrġe f

1. ember
   • c. 9th century, Bald's Leechbook, published in Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest (1865, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green), edited and with translations by Oswald Cockayne, volume 3, page 30

     Ġif se uīc weonðe on mannes setle geseten, þonne nim ðu clātan moran þa grēatan .III. oððe .IIII. ⁊ berēc hȳ on hāte ǣmerġean...

     If the "fig"-swelling becomes lodged on a man's rump, then take three or four of the great roots of burdock and smoke them on the hot embers...

Declension

Declension of æmyrge (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	ǣmyrġe	ǣmyrġan
accusative	ǣmyrġan	ǣmyrġan
genitive	ǣmyrġan	ǣmyrġena
dative	ǣmyrġan	ǣmyrġum

Descendants

• Middle English: embre, eymbre, aymer, eymere, emeri
  • English: ember

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ǽmerge”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.