Foxes fót

Old English Dictionary Entry

Foxes fót

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 foxes fót

m. Fox's foot, bur reed, a water plant; sparganum simplex, xiphion = GREEK :-- Genim ðysse wyrte wyrttruman, ðe man xiphion, and óðrum naman foxes fót, nemneþ take a root of this plant, which is named xiphion, and by another name fox's foot, Herb. 47, 1; Lchdm. i. 150, 16. foxes fot

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ᚠᚩᚳᛋᛖᛋ ᚠᚩᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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