Be-heáwan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-heáwan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: bi-heáwan ; Related words:

Definitions

1 be-heáwan

p. -heów; pp. -heáwen To beat, bruise, hew or cut off, to separate from, deprive of; tundere, cædendo privare, amputare :-- Beheáwene mid swingellan tunsi per flagella, Past. 36, 5; Hat. MS. 47 b, 15. Heáfde beheáwan to behead, Bt. Met. Fox 1, 85; Met. 1, 43. Hwonne me wráþra sum aldre beheówe when some enemy might deprive me of life, Cd. 128; Th. 163, 21; Gen. 2701. be-heawan

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᚻᛖᚪᚹᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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