for the first time; it remained in use for 300 years. It here means ‘at once.’
Forþwiþþ also appears for the first time, but is used only once by Orrmin; the old forrþrihht is commonly employed by him.
Hallflingess, a word still in Scotch use, appears in Orrmin instead of the old healfunga.
The Old English Interjection eala now becomes la, our lo!
Orr (in Latin aut) appears once or twice for the first time, replacing the old oþþe.
Orrmin was the first to use rihht instead of swiþe (the Latin valde), though he does not do it often; thus, in I. page 217, he talks of leading a life rihht wel wiþþ Godess hellpe. We still keep the old adverb, though the foreign very has almost driven it out.
The word ân, when used in the sense of solus, takes all before it (hence comes our alone). We are told that man cannot
Bi bræd all ane libbenn. — II. p. 40.
the new forms although, albeit, &c., were soon to follow.
Orrmin uses, as we do, both awihht and ohht (aught and ought).
The Old English word for the Latin idem was ylc, still kept in Scotland; as Redgauntlet of that Ilk. Instead of this, Orminn, but only once, uses same;
He mihhte makenn cwike menn
þæer off þa same staness. — I. page 345.
