Byrd-soype

Old English Dictionary Entry

Byrd-soype

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 byrd-soype

m. [byrd, ge-byrd birth, scype state, condition] Birth-ship, child-bearing; gestatio, partus :-- Ic tó fela hæbbe ðæs byrdscypes bealwa onfongen I have received too many injuries from this childbearing, Exon. 10b; Th. 12, 7; Cri. 182. byrd-soype

Runic Inscription

ᛒᚣᚱᛞ-ᛋᚩᚣᛈᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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