Ge-hendnys

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-hendnys

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -nyss, e; Related words:

Definitions

1 ge-hendnys

f. Nearness, proximity, vicinity; proxĭmĭtas, vīcīnĭtas :-- Gehendnys vīcīnĭtas, Glos. Prudent. Recd. 139, 47. Ða geswuteliaþ gehendnysse they express vicinity, Ælfc. Gr. 5; Som. 4, 50. On gehendnysse his mynstres in the neighbourhood of his monastery, Homl. Th. ii. 174, 5. ge-hendnys

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚻᛖᚾᛞᚾᚣᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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