hemeþe
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Searchable Lemmata: hemeþe (OE).
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Definitions and Defining Citations:
1a(n.) ;
shirt; undergarment; among the clothing of monks.(ante 1100)
2. Lotum induitur mundis uestimentis, id est interula, cuculla, caligis, calceis, cuiuscumque sit ordinis; <nisi> si uero sacerdos fuerit, circumdatur ei stola super cucullam, si ita ratio dictauerit geðwegen byþ gescrydd mid clænum reafum þæt ys mid hemeþe & culan hosum sceon swa hwylcere swa he si endebyrdnysse <buton> gif he soþlice sacerd byþ si ymbutonseald him stole ofer þa culan gif swa gescead wissaþ.
[DOE RegCGl (Kornexl) (050000 (66.1582)) 970/1050]
Ceremonial: No
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Etymological Evidence:
Definite, native Old English word from proto-Germanic *(k)hamiþi- via a form such as *hamiþija-. Cf. OHG hamidi, hemidi 'outer garment, shirt'. The Germanic source also lies behind Latin camisia (q.v.), perhaps borrowed from Germanic via Gaulish. See also hame.
WF:
Etym Cog: camisia, chemise.
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