Ge-andwyrdan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-andwyrdan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -andwerdan; Related words:

Definitions

1 ge-andwyrdan

p. -andwyrde; pp. -andwyrded, -andwyrd To answer; respondēre :-- Ne mihton hig agén ðis him geandwyrdan non pŏtĕrant ad hæc respondēre illi, Lk. Bos. 14, 6 : Bt. 41, 2; Fox. 244, 23. Geandwyrde [geandwerde MS. G.] he ðam óðrum swá hundréde riht þence let him answer to the other as shall seem right to the hundred, L. C. S. 27; Th. i. 392, 6. Him wæs geandwyrd ðus he was answered thus, Gen. 19, 21. ge-andwyrdan

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚪᚾᛞᚹᚣᚱᛞᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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