Be-sorg

Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-sorg

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -sorh; Related words:

Definitions

1 be-sorg

adj. Anxious, careful, dear, beloved; sollicitns, carus : Ðǽr wǽron ofslægene hyre þægna feówer ðe hyre besorge wǽron there were slain four of her thanes which were dear to her, Chr. 917; Erl. 105, 25. Papinianus wæs ealra his deorlinga besorgost Papinianus was the most beloved of all his favourites, Bt. 29, 2; Fox 104, 25. Besorh carus, R. Ben. 72. be-sorg

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᛋᚩᚱᚷ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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