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_Scofield._ _Sceawe_, a show; _feld_, a field. A show-field. See

Scofield, page 99, which contains two errors.

_Shourds._ _Sceardes_, genitive of _sceard_, a sheard, division.

Belonging to a sheard.

_Sowden._ Anglo-Norman _soudan_, from Moorish _soldan_, a prince. A

prince; a sultan.

_Sumpter._ Anglo-Norman _summere_, a sumpter horse; and _sumpter_, a

horse that carries clothes, furniture, etc. Going back to the original,

from the Latin _sumo_, I take, _sumptum_, to take, with Anglo-Saxon

_ere_, an agent: that is, one that takes or carries.

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