Bí-word

Old English Dictionary Entry

Bí-word

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -wyrd, es; Related words:

Definitions

1 bí-word

n. [be, bí by, word a word] A BYEWORD, proverb; proverbium :-- Man segþ [seið MS.] to bíworde, 'hæge sitteþ ða æceras dǽleþ' man saith for a proverb, 'the hedge abides which fields divides,' Chr. 1130; Erl. 259, 13. Bíword, bíwyrd proverbium, Cot. 157. bi-word

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ᛒᛁ-ᚹᚩᚱᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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