For-weoren

Old English Dictionary Entry

For-weoren

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: = for-woren; Related words: weosan]

Definitions

1 for-weoren

part. p. [for-, woren, pp. of forweosan, Tottering, decayed; marcĭdus, decrĕpĭtus :-- Eorþgráp hafaþ waldendwyrhtan, forweorene [MS. forweorone], geleorene earth's grasp [i.e. the grave] holdeth its mighty workmen, decayed, departed, Exon. 124 a; Th. 476, 14; Ruin. 7. Forworen decrĕpĭtus, Hpt. Gl. 456; Leo A. Sax. Gl. 84, 60. for-weoren

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᚱ-ᚹᛇᚱᛖᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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