DÍGOL

Old English Dictionary Entry

DÍGOL

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: dýgol, dégol, es; Related words:

Definitions

1 DÍGOL

n. Concealment, a secret place, secret, darkness, the grave, mystery; secrētum, abscondĭtum, sepulcrum, mystērium :-- Ðæt ðín ælmesse sý on díglum ut sit eleemosyna tua in abscondĭto, Mt. Bos. 6, 4. He wǽt díglu heortan ipse nōvit abscondĭta cordis, Ps. Spl. 43, 24: 50, 7. Mægen he cýðde on dígle he revealed his power in secret, Andr. Kmbl. 1251; An. 626. He ðý þriddan dæge of dígle arás he rose the third day from the secret place [the grave], Exon. 96 a; Th. 359, 13; Pa. 62. digol

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ᛞᛁᚷᚩᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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