Ge-hende

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-hende

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 ge-hende

adj. Neighbouring, next; vicinus :-- On gehende túnas in proximos vicos, Mk. Bos. 1, 38 : 6, 36. Ðá férdon hí to gehendre byrig then they went to a neighbouring city, Homl. Th. i. 456, 5. Ðæt hý ðǽr, gehendaste wǽron on gehwylc land ðanon to winnanne that they there should be most handy for waging war thence on every land, Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 61, 5. ge-hende

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚻᛖᚾᛞᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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