þancol

Old English Dictionary Entry

þancol

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: deóp-, fore-, ge-, gearo-, hete-, hyge-, scearp-, searuþancol; þancol-mód. þancol

Definitions

1 þancol

adj. Addicted to thought, acute :-- Cild ácenned (born on the sixteenth day of the moon) þancul (efficax; cf. scearpþancfullíce efficaciter, Scint. 206, 14; and see scearpþanclíce), staþolfæst, Lchdm. iii. 192, 8. Saga, þoncol mon, hwá mec bregde of brimes fæþmum, Exon. Th. 382, 17; Rä. 3, 12.

Runic Inscription

ᚦᚪᚾᚳᚩᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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