Ceaster-gewara

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ceaster-gewara

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: l.

Definitions

1 ceaster-gewara

m. A citizen :-- Ceastergewara (cestergewaru, ) oððe portman avis, Ælf. Gr. Z. 318, 7. Þes and þeós ceastergewara hic et haec civis, 53, 12. Ceastergewara (-geware, -gewaran, ) civis, 11, 16. Cæstergewara concivis, Hy. S. 55, 31. Cæstergewaran rodorlice cives aetherei, 57, 4. Hé cóm tó þǽre byrig ... ðá ceastergewaran wundrodon, Hml. S. 24, 131: Shrn. 98, 33: 151, 34. Wé syndon þýne ceastergewaran, Ap. Th. 20, 1. Gé Tharsysce ceastergewaran, 26, 2. Godes ceastergewaran. Hml. Th. i. 38, 34. Ðá Rómániscan ceastregewaran, 370, 30. Ðǽra heofenlicra ceastergewarena, 348, 33. Ceastriwarena, An. Ox. 329: 703. Se cyngc hine sylfne ætýwde his ceastergewarum, Ap. Th. 3, 3. Sleán þá ceastergewaran, Hml. S. 13, 254: 22, 167. Cf. ceaster-wara. ceaster-gewara

Runic Inscription

ᚳᛠᛋᛏᛖᚱ-ᚷᛖᚹᚪᚱᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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