Ge-búan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-búan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: a. acc. To inhabit, occupy;

Definitions

1 ge-búan

p. -búde, pl. -búdon; pp. -búen, -bún [ge-, búan to dwell]. I. intrans. To dwell, abide; habĭtāre, versāri alĭquo lŏco :-- Hí gebúdon betweoh Capadotiam and Pontum they abode between Cappadocia and Pontus, Ors. 1, 10; Bos. 32, 36. II. inhabĭtāre, incŏlĕre :-- Hú hit [ðæt hús] Hring-Dene gebún hæfdon how the Ring-Danes had occupied it [the house], Beo. Th. 235; B. 117. Ne sceal ðes wong gebúen weorþan nor shall this field be occupied, Exon. 37 a; Th. 120, 24; Gú. 276 : Blickl. Homl. 121, 33. ge-buan

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛒᚢᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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