FYRST

Old English Dictionary Entry

FYRST

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: first, fierst, es; Related words:

Definitions

1 FYRST

m. I. the first entrance, a threshold, door; limen, Cot. 118. II. the first in height, the top, ridge, the inward roof, ceiling of a chamber; culmen, lăquear :-- Fyrst lăquear, Ælfc. Gl. 29; Som. 61, 43; Wrt. Voc. 26, 42: 82, 15. [Ger. first, m. f. a gable, summit: M. H. Ger. virst, m: O. H. Ger. first, m. culmen, pinna.] fyrst

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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