Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-mengness

Related words: ge-mengan , IV a :-- Hié gewemmað ðone áliéfedan gesinscipe mid ðǽre unliéfedan gemengnesse

Definitions

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1 ge-mengness

Take here the instances given under ge-mengednys, and add: sexual intercourse, copulation, in ipso conjugio jura transcendunt, Past. 397, 14. Gif bróðor mid bréðer hǽme þurh his líchaman gemengnysse (per copulationem corporis), Ll. Th. ii. 230, 10.

Similar Words

-gal
-gale (-a)
-galness
-gangendlic
-gealla

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛗᛖᛝᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Ll.: Laws of the Anglo-Saxons
Past.: Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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