Be-frinan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-frinan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -frynan; Related words:

Definitions

1 be-frinan

p. -fran, pl. -frunon; pp. -frunen [be, frinan to ask] To ask, inquire, learn; interrogare, sciscitari, discere :-- Ic befrine sciscitor, Ælfc. Gr. 25; Som. 27, 4. Herodes befran hí Herodes didicit ab eis, Mt. Bos. 2, 7. be-frinan

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᚠᚱᛁᚾᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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