Fífta

Old English Dictionary Entry

Fífta

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: 19, 25. Ðæt gé habbon wæstmas, and syllaþ ðam cynge ðone fíftan dǽl

Definitions

1 fífta

m: seó, ðæt fífte; adj. The FIFTH; quintus :-- Se fífta dæg the fifth day, Gen. 1, 23. Fífta wæs Eádwine, Norþan Hymbra cyning the fifth was Edwin king of the Northumbrians, Chr. 827; Erl. 64, 3. Her UNCERTAIN onginnþ seó fífte bóc Boéties here begins the fifth book of Boëthius, Bt. 40, 4; Fox 240, 9. Ǽr ðam fíftan geáre before the fifth year, Leut frūges hăbēre possītis, quintam partem rēgi dăbĭtis, Gen. 47, 24, 26. fifta

Runic Inscription

ᚠᛁᚠᛏᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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