smeoru
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *smeru, from Proto-Germanic *smerwą, from Proto-Indo-European *smérus.
Noun
smeoru n
- fat, grease, suet, tallow
Derived terms
- flotsmeoru (“floating fat”)
- heorotsmeoru (“hare grease”)
- smeorumangestre (“butter-woman”)
- smeorusealf (“grease salve”)
- smeoruþearm (“entrail”)
- smeoruwiġ (“fatty, greasy, unctuous”)
- smeoruwyrt (“smearwort”)
Descendants
- Middle English: smer, smere
- English: smear
- Scots: smergh
References
- smeoru in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary