Ge-byre

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-byre

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: byre, ge-byrian. ge-byre

Definitions

1 ge-byre

m. The time at which anything happens, a favourable time, an opportunity; occasio, opportunitas :-- Hwonne him eft gebyre weorþe, hám cymeþ when there shall again be an opportunity to him he will come home, Exon. 90 b; Th. 340, 3; Gn. Ex. 105. [O. H. Ger. gaburi, f. eventus, casus.]

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛒᚣᚱᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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