Angnes

Old English Dictionary Entry

Angnes

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -ness, angnis, -niss, angnys, -nyss, e; Related words: angsumnes. angnes

Definitions

1 angnes

f. [ange angustus, anxius; -nes] Narrowness, anxiety, distress, sorrow, trouble, anguish; angustiæ, anxietas, tristitia, ærumna :-- Angnes módes anxietas animi, Somn. 354. On angnisse mín in ærumna mea, Ps. Spl. T. 31, 4. Geswinc and angnys gemétton me tribulatio et angustiæ invenerunt me, Ps. Spl. 118, 143.

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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