Old English Dictionary Entry

Hype-

Part of speech: hup-seax, es;

Definitions

1 definitions

1 hype-

n. A knife hanging at the hip, a dagger, short sword :-- Lytel sweord vel hypesex pugio vel clunabulum, Ælfc. Gl. 52; Som. 65, 50; Wrt. Voc. 35, 37. Helm oððe hupseax, Exon. 79 a; Th. 297, 6; Crä. 64. Helmas and hupseax, Judth. 12; Th. 26, 15; Jud. 328. hype-,hype

Similar Words

-hád
-háda
-hafen-ness
-hafness
-hafol

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚣᛈᛖ-

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Exon.: Exeter Book
Som.: Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.: Ælfric

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