ysle

ysle f (plural ysles)

1. Alternative form of isle

• ysel

Cognate with Middle High German usele, üsele (“ashes”) and Icelandic usli (“conflagration, field of burning embers”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈys.le/, [ˈyz.le]

ysle f

1. a spark, cinder, ash, ember

   Hē geseah hū ða ysla up flugon mid ðam smīce [Gen. 19, 28]

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   Heora wyrtruma bið swā swā windige ysla [(Is. 5, 24), Homl. Th. ii. 322, 20]

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   Ða yslan [Exon. Th. 213, 13; Ph. 224]

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   In onlīcnesse uppāstīgendra yselena [v.l. ysla] [Bd. 5, 12; S. 628, 23]

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   Ic eom yslum and axum geanlīcod [(Job 30, 19), Homl. Th. ii. 456, 13]

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   Bearwas wurdon tō axan and tō yslan [Cd. Th. 154, 9; Gen. 2553]

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   Gebringeþ bān and yslan, ādes lāfe, eft ætsomne [Exon. Th. 216, 21; Ph. 271: 236, 18; Ph. 576]

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• yslende

• Middle English: iselle, isyl, usle, ysel
  • English: izle

• Joseph Bosworth (1898) Thomas Northcote Toller, editor, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, s.v. “ysel”, page 1,300/2