Cépa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Cépa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: cýpa. cepa

Definitions

1 cépa

m. A chapman, merchant; mercator :-- Nǽnig cépa ne seah ellendne wearod no merchant saw a foreign shore, Bt. Met. Fox 8, 58; Met. 8, 29. Ne geseah nán cépa eáland ILLEGIBLE no merchant visited an island, Bt. 15; Fox 48, 13. Cépena þinga gewrixle the interchange of merchants' goods, commerce; commercuim, Ælfc. Gl. 16; Som. 58, 53; Wrt. Voc. 21, 41.

Runic Inscription

ᚳᛖᛈᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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