mynsterwise

Old English

Etymology

From mynster (“monastery”) +‎ -wīse (“custom of”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmyn.sterˌwiː.se/, [ˈmyn.sterˌwiː.ze]

Noun

mynsterwīse f

1. a custom of or followed in a monastery

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “mynster-wíse”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.