Be-hycgan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-hycgan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -hicgan Related words: hycgan. be-hycgan

Definitions

1 be-hycgan

to think, consider, bear in mind, trust; meditari, considerare, sollicitum esse de re, confidere, niti :-- He sceal deópe behycgan þroht þeóden-gedál he must deeply bear in mind the dire decease of his lord, Exon. 52 b; Th. 183, 7; Gú. 1323. Ðe on Gode behicgaþ qui in Deo acquiescunt, R. Ben. 31.

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᚻᚣᚳᚷᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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