
ETYMOLOGY
from wlat (nausea, loathing, disgust) from Old English wlætta
EXAMPLE
“…þe thrid pine es hard to drei,
O wormes þat sal neuer dei,
Fell dragons and tades bath
þat ar apon to lok ful lath,
Ful wlatsum on to here or se,
Ful wa es þam þat þare sal be;
Als we se fixs in water suim,
Sua liue þai in þat lou sa dim….”
From: Cursor Mundi
A Northumbrian poem of the 14th century