A-dón

Old English Dictionary Entry

A-dón

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: a. To take away, remove, banish;

Definitions

1 a-dón

p. -dyde; impert. -dó; tollere, ejicere :-- Ne mágon ðé nú heonan adón hyrste ða reádan the red ornaments may not now take thee hence, Exon. 99a; Th. 370, 14; Seel. 57. Ðæt hý God ðanon adó to heora ágnum lande that God will bring them thence to their own land, Ors. 3, 5; Bos. 56, 37. Adó ða buteran remove the butter, L. M. 1, 36; Lchdm. ii. 86, 22. Adó of ða buteran take off the butter, 86, 19. Flód adyde mancinn a flood destroyed mankind, Ælfc. T. 5, 25: Gen. 7, 23: 9, 11, Adó ðas wylne ejice ancillam hanc, Gen. 21, 10: Bt. 16, 1; Fox 50, 10: Ps. Th. 68, 14. a-don

Runic Inscription

ᚪ-ᛞᚩᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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