Fóster-módor

Old English Dictionary Entry

Fóster-módor

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -móder, fóstor-módor, féster-módor, -módur, fǽster-módor; Related words:

Definitions

1 fóster-módor

f. A FOSTER-MOTHER, nurse; altrix, nutrix :-- Hwæðer hit oncneówe his fóstermódor whether it knew its foster-mother, Bt. 3, 1; Fox 4, 30. Fóstermóder altrix vel nutrix, Wrt. Voc. 72, 38. Ic gean mínre fósterméder ðæs landes æt Westúne I give to my mother the land at Weston, Th. Diplm. 560, 25. foster-modor

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᛋᛏᛖᚱ-ᛗᚩᛞᚩᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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