Eln-gemet

Old English Dictionary Entry

Eln-gemet

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: eln

Definitions

1 eln-gemet

n. An ell-measure, the length of an ell, two feet? cŭbĭtālis mensura, ulnae mensūra :-- Ðæt fær gewyrc fíftiges wíd, þrittiges heáh, þreó hund lang elngemeta make the vessel fifty wide, thirty high, three hundred long, of ell measures, Cd. 65; Th. 79, 10; Gen. 1309. I. and III. eln-gemet

Runic Inscription

ᛖᛚᚾ-ᚷᛖᛗᛖᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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