Old English Dictionary Entry

Ceahhetung

Part of speech: e;

Definitions

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1 ceahhetung

f. A loud or cackling laughter; cachinnus, cachinnatio :-- Ðá gehýrde ic mycel gehlýd and ceahhetung, swá swá ungelǽredes folces then heard I a great noise and a cackling laughter, as of rude folk, Bd. 5, 12; S. 628, 30. Ceahhetung vel cincung cachinnatio, Ælfc. Gl. 88; Som. 74, 86. ceahhetung

Similar Words

-cafstrian
-cirre
-clips
-cnáwe
-cnáwlíce

Runic Inscription

ᚳᛠᚻᚻᛖᛏᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Bd.: Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
S.: Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Som.: Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Ælfc.: Ælfric

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