Eá-wyrt

Old English Dictionary Entry

Eá-wyrt

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 eá-wyrt

f. River-wort, burdock; arctium lappa, Lin :-- Genim clifwyrt, sume men hátaþ foxes clife, sume eá-wyrt take cliff-wort, some men call [it] fox-glove, some river-wort, L. M. 1, 15; Lchdm. ii. 58, 4: iii. 74, 10. Nim eáwyrte nioðowearde take the netherward [part] of burdock, L. M. 1. 87; Lchdm. ii. 154, 14. ea-wyrt

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ᛖᚪ-ᚹᚣᚱᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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