A-heardian

Old English Dictionary Entry

A-heardian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: intrans. To harden, grow hard, become inured to anything, to last, hold out, endure;

Definitions

1 a-heardian

p. ode; pp. od; durare, perdurare, indurescere :-- On swá mycelre geþræstnesse and forhæfednesse módes and líchoman aheardode and awunode he hardened and continued in so great contrition and restraint of mind and body; in tanta mentis et corporis contritione duravit, Bd. 5, 12; S. 627, 28. AheardaÞ his gebod perdurat ejus imperium, R. Ben, 68. a-heardian

Runic Inscription

ᚪ-ᚻᛠᚱᛞᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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