A-smorian

Old English Dictionary Entry

A-smorian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: trans. To smother, choke, strangle, suffocate;

Definitions

1 a-smorian

p. ede, ode; pp. ed, od; suffocare :-- Asmoraþ ðæt word suffocat verbum, Mt. Rush. Stthey smothered and stifled him on his bed, Ors. 5, 4; Bos. 105, 5. Ðæt ge ne blód ne þicgen, ne asmored [MS. H. asmorod] that ye taste not blood, nor [what is] strangled, L. Alf. 49; Th. i. 56, 26. a-smorian

Runic Inscription

ᚪ-ᛋᛗᚩᚱᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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