GANOT

Old English Dictionary Entry

GANOT

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: ganet, es; Related words:

Definitions

1 GANOT

m. A gannet, sea-fowl, water-fowl, fen-duck; ăvis mărina, fŭlix, fŭlĭca :-- Ganot fŭlix, Wrt. Voc. 62, 7 : 280, 13. Ðá wearþ adrǽfed deórmód hæleþ, Óslác of earde, ofer ýþa gewealc, ofer ganotes bæþ then the brave man, Oslac, was driven away from the land, over the billows' roll, over the gannet's bath [the sea], Chr. 975; Erl. 126, 20; Edg. 46 : Beo. Th. 3727; B. 1861. Ác fereþ gelóme ofer ganotes bæþ a ship [lit. oak] often saileth over the gannet's bath [the sea], Runic pm. 25; Kmbl. 344, 19; Hick. Thes. i. 135. 49. [Plat. gante : Dut. gent, m. a male goose, gander : O. H. Ger. ganazo, ganzo, m. anetus.] ganot

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ᚷᚪᚾᚩᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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