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Eóh = iw

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m. The Anglo-Saxon Rune RUNE = eó, the name of which letters in Anglo-Saxon is eóh = íw a yew-tree; taxus, -- hence this Rune not only stands for the diphthong eo, but for eoh a yew-tree, as, -- RUNE [Eóh] biþ útan unsméðe treów, heard, hrusan fæst yew is outwardly an unsmooth tree, hard, fast in the earth, Hick. Thes. i. 135, 25; Runic pm. 13; Kmbl. 341, 26.
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