Ge-fiscian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-fiscian

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 ge-fiscian

p. ode To fish (trans.), to fish for, catch or try to catch fish :-- Críst dyde þæt hí mid his heofonlican láre manna sáwla gefixodon . . . be dám cwæð se wítega : 'Ic ásende míne fisceras, and hí gefixiað hí' (ego mittam piscatores, et piscabuntur eos, Jer, 16, 16), Hml. Th. i. 576, 22-27. ge-fiscian

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚠᛁᛋᚳᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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