Feng

Old English Dictionary Entry

Feng

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: fang. feng

Definitions

1 feng

m. [fón to take]. I. a grasp, span, hug, embrace; amplexus, captus :-- Ic fára feng feore gedígde from the grasp of foes I with life escaped, Beo. Th. 1160; B. 578. Fýres feng the grasp of fire, Salm. Kmbl. 707; Sal. 353. II. what is taken, booty; captum, præda :-- Hí feng woldon fón they would take the booty, Chr. 1016; Th. 280, 30, col. 2: 33, col. 1. DER. an-feng, and-, fore-, ofer-, on-, to-, under-.

Runic Inscription

ᚠᛖᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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