Cleófa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Cleófa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: cleafa, cliófa, an; Related words: clýfa. cleofa

Definitions

1 cleófa

m. That which is cloven, a cleft, chasm, den, cell, chamber; cubīle, cellarium, cubiculum :-- On heora cleófum oððe holum híg beóþ gelogode in cubilibus suis collocabuntur, Ps. Lamb. 103, 22. Unriht he byþ smeágende on his cliófan iniquitatem meditatus est in cubili suo, Ps. Th. 35, 3. Sinewealt cleófa vel portic absida, Ælfc. Gl. 108; Som. 78, 122; Wrt. Voc. 58, 34. Ðeós sweoster wæs útgangende of hire cleófan hæc soror egressa est de cubiculo, Bd. 4, 9; S. 576, 31. DER. clústor-cleófa, ferhþ-, hord-, in-, nýd-.

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ᚳᛚᛖᚩᚠᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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