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Old English Dictionary Entry

Brún-basu

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1 brún-basu

adj. [brún brown, basu purple] Dark-purple, purple, purple-red, scarlet; purpureus, ostriger, coccineus, puniceus :-- Brúnbasere reádnysse purpureo ostro, Mone B. 6102. Brúnbasum [MS. -bæsewum], reádum purpureis, 2087. Brúnbasum purpureis, 189. Brúnbaso ostriger, Cot. 145. Brúnbasne coccineum, Mone B. 6153. Ðý brúnan oððe ðý brúnbasewan puniceo, Cot. 183. brun-basu
Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛒᚱᚢᚾ-ᛒᚪᛋᚢ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Cot.
Cottonian Manuscripts
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