Ang-sum

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ang-sum

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: anc-sum; adj. Related words:

Definitions

1 ang-sum

Narrow, strait, troublesome, hard, difficult, angustus, difficilis :-- Eálá hú neara and hú angsum is ðæt geat, and se weg ðe to lífe gelǽdt; and swýðe feáwa synt ðe ðone weg findon quam angusta porla, et arcta via est, quae ducit ad vitam; et pauci sunt qui inveniunt eam, Mt. Bos. 7, 14. ang-sum

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ᚪᛝ-ᛋᚢᛗ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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