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FYRHTO

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1 FYRHTO

indecl. in sing, fyrhtu, e; f. Fear, FRIGHT, dread, terror, trembling; tĭmor, păvor, formīdo, terror, trĕmor :-- Us fyrhto gegráp fear seized us, Nicod. 21; Thw. 10, 32: Cant. Moys. Ex. 15, 19; Thw. 30, 19. Fyrhto oððe bifung trĕmor, Ps. Lamb. 47, 7. Ðeós firhtu [fyrhtu, MS. D.] hæc formīdo, Ælfc. Gr. 36; Som. 38, 50: Ps. Th. 54, 4. Egsa me and fyrhtu forcwómon tĭmor et trĕmor vēnērunt sŭper me, Ps. Th. 54, 5. On mínre fyrhto in păvōre meo, 30, 25. Geblissiaþ him on fyrhto [fyrhtu, Lamb.] exultāte ei in trĕmōre, Ps. Spl. 2, 11. Hí mycle fyrhto onstyredon ðám monnum ðe hí sceáwodon and gesáwon they stirred up much fear in the men who beheld and saw them, Bd. 5, 23; S. 645, 23: Exon. 119 a; Th. 457, 21; Hy. 4, 87. Ne him Godes fyrhtu georne ondrǽdaþ non tĭmuērunt Deum, Ps. Th. 54, 20: 77, 53. [O. Sax. forhta, f: O. Frs. fruchta: Dut. Kil. vrucht, vurcht: Ger. furcht, f: M. H. Ger. vorhte, f: O. H. Ger. forhta, f: Goth. faurhtei, f: Dan. frygt, m. f; Swed. fruktan. f.] fyrhto
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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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German
Goth.
Gothic
O. Frs.
Old Frisian
O. H. Ger.
Old High German

Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Exon.
Exeter Book
Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Som.
Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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