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Old English Dictionary Entry

FYRST

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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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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚣᚱᛋᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Abbreviations Used

Common Abbreviations

Ger.
German
O. H. Ger.
Old High German

Works & Authors

Cot.
Cottonian Manuscripts
Som.
Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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