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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-bytlu

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1 ge-bytlu

indecl. f. A building :-- Man bytlode áne gebytlu, and ða wyrhtan worhton ða gebytlu on ðam Sæternes-dæge, and wæs ðá forneán geendod they were building a building, and the workmen were making the building on the Saturday, and it was then very nearly finished, Homl. Th. ii. 580, 32; 172, 23; 580, 21. He gýmþ grǽdelíce his gafoles, his gebytlu he attends greedily to his rent, his buildings, i. 66, 11; 68, 2. He eów sylþ micle burga and ða sélnstan gebytlu he will give you great cities and the best buildings, Deut. 6, 10.
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ᚷᛖ-ᛒᚣᛏᛚᚢ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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