Deád-wille

Old English Dictionary Entry

Deád-wille

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 deád-wille

adj. Unproductive, barren:--Ðá beorgas tódǽlað ꝥ wæsmbǽre land and þæt deádwylle sand mons dividit inter vivam terram et arenas, Ors. 1, 1; S. 26, 19. Cf. cwic-wille. dead-wille

Runic Inscription

ᛞᛖᚪᛞ-ᚹᛁᛚᛚᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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