Buttor-fleóge

Old English Dictionary Entry

Buttor-fleóge

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 buttor-fleóge

f. [butere butter, fleóge a fly] A BUTTERFLY; papilio, Ælfc. Gl. 22; Som. 59, 115; Wrt. Voc. 23, 70. [Ger. butter-fliege, f.] DER. niht-buttorfleóge. buttor-fleoge

Runic Inscription

ᛒᚢᛏᛏᚩᚱ-ᚠᛚᛖᚩᚷᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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