A-dún

Old English Dictionary Entry

A-dún

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -dúne; Related words: Down, adown, downward;

Definitions

1 a-dún

ad deorsum :-- Adún of ðam wealle down from the wall, Bd. 1, 12; S. 481, 21. Ða óðre ða dura brǽcon adúne the others broke the doors down, Chr. 1083; Th. 352, 19. Adúne asetton (they) put down, deposed, Bd. 4, 6; S. 573, 35. He adúne astáh descendit, Ps. Spl. 71, 6: 87, 4. a-dun

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ᚪ-ᛞᚢᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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