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"english": "help, kindness",
"word": "ārstafas"
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"english": "Literary arts",
"word": "ġebreġdstafas ()"
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"english": "candle-staff or stick",
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"english": "staff used by cantor",
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"english": "family staff, stay of the house",
"word": "ēþelfstæf"
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"english": "joy",
"word": "gleostæf"
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"english": "affliction, trouble",
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"english": "sword cane",
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"english": "accusations",
"word": "wrōhtstafas ()"
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"english": "fate's fiat",
"word": "wyrdstæf"
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"english": "Your rod and your staff comfort me.",
"roman": "Þīn ġierd and þīn stæf mē āfrēfredon.",
"text": "c. 899, Alfred the Great, Psalm 23",
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"english": "We look at pictures in one way and letters in another. You don't do anything with a painting except see it and praise it. Looking at letters is not enough unless you also read them and understand the meaning.",
"text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"Midlent Sunday\"\nOn ōðre wīsan wē sċēawiaþ mētinge and on ōðre wīsan stafas. Ne gǣþ nā māre tō mētinge būtan þæt þū hit ġesēo and herie. Nis nā ġenōg þæt þū stafas sċēawiġe būtan þū hīe ēac rǣde and þæt andġiet understande.",
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"english": "help, kindness",
"word": "ārstafas"
},
{
"english": "Literary arts",
"word": "ġebreġdstafas ()"
},
{
"english": "oath",
"word": "āþstæf"
},
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"word": "canterstæf"
},
{
"english": "family staff, stay of the house",
"word": "ēþelfstæf"
},
{
"english": "scandal",
"word": "edwītstæf"
},
{
"english": "joy",
"word": "gleostæf"
},
{
"english": "affliction, trouble",
"word": "ġyrnstæf"
},
{
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"grammar",
"linguistics",
"human-sciences",
"sciences"
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"word": "stæfcræft"
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"english": "literal",
"word": "stæflīċ"
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{
"english": "sword cane",
"word": "stæfsweord"
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"english": "accusations",
"word": "wrōhtstafas ()"
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{
"english": "fate's fiat",
"word": "wyrdstæf"
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