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Old English Dictionary Entry

Decem-ber

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1 Decem-ber

gen. -bris; m. [dĕcem ten: Sansk. vāra: Pers. bār time, space: the tenth month of the Romans, beginning with March, and as we begin with January, it is our twelfth month] The month of December; Dĕcember, bris, m :-- Mónaþ Decembris, ǽrra iúla [geóla] the month of December, the former yule, Menol. Fox 437; Men. 220; January being after yule or Christmas is called Se æftera geóla; the after yule, Cott. Tibĕrius; B. i; Hick. Thes. i. 212, 57. decem-ber
Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛞᛖᚳᛖᛗ-ᛒᛖᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
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