Cínu

Old English Dictionary Entry

Cínu

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: cíne, an;

Definitions

1 cínu

f. A chink, fissure; rima, fissura :-- Cínu rima vel fissura, Wrt. Voc. 85, 18. Gemétte he ðæt fæt swá gehál dæt ðǽr nán cínu on næs gesewen he found the vessel so whole that there was no chink seen in it, Homl. Th. ii. 154, 22. f. cinu

Runic Inscription

ᚳᛁᚾᚢ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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