An-fón

Old English Dictionary Entry

An-fón

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: on-fón. an-fon

Definitions

1 an-fón

p. -féng; pp. -fangen To take, take to one's self, receive, perceive, comprehend; accipere, suscipere, sumere, percipere, recipere :-- Ðú sceonde æt me anfénge thou shouldest have taken to thyself shame from me, Cd. 42; Th. 54, 10; Gen. 875 : Exon. 112 a; Th. 429, 12; Rä. 43, 3: Ps. C. 50, 135; Ps. Grn. ii. 280, 135. To anfónne to receive, Bd. 3, 6; S. 528, 4.

Runic Inscription

ᚪᚾ-ᚠᚩᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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