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† thyvel, thuvel Obs.
Forms: 1 þyfel, -þel, 3 þuuel.
[OE. þȳfel (or ? þýfel: see Note below), early ME. þuvel(ü).]
A bush, a thicket.
a1000Ags. Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 244/20, 22 Frutectum, i. arborum densitas, uel ramus, þyfel. Frutex, frutecta, þyfel. c1000Lambeth Ps. lxxix. 11 His þyþelas vel twygu, arbusta eius. c1000ælfric Gram., Nom. Arb. (Z.) 312 Frutex, þyfel. c1000― Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 139/24 Spina, uel sentrix, þyfel. c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 98 ᵹenim þysse wyrte þe we leon fot nemdon fif ðyfelas butan wyrt⁓truman. a1250Owl & Night. 278 Vor þi ich am loþ smale vowele [v.r. foȝ(e)le] Þat fleoþ bi grunde & bi þuuele.
[Note. The length of the stem-vowel in OE. is disputed; the dictionaries generally have þýfel, viewing it as a derivative of þúf, tuft of leaves; Sievers thinks that the y was certainly short. Whether þyfel or þývel, the form agrees remarkably with that of thivel a pot-stick; but no connexion of sense has been found, and there is a gap both of time and place between the Dorsetshire þuvel of 1250 and the Yorkshire thyvelle of 1483.] |