Ge-neát

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-neát

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: ] Be cyninges geneáte

Definitions

1 ge-neát

m. A companion, associate, vassal :-- Big-standaþ me strange geneátas ða ne willaþ me æt ðam stríðe geswícan strong companions stand by me who will not fail me at the strife, Cd. 15; Th. 18, 36; Gen. 284. Geneát inquilinus, Cot. 108: parasitus, 152. Byrhtwold wæs eald geneát [or eald-geneát, q.of a king's 'geneat,' L. In. 19; th. i. 114, 9: Chr. 897; Erl. 96, 3. Be ðon ðe monnes geneát stalige in case a man's 'geneát' steal, L. In. 22, Th. i. 116, 9. [Icel. nautr: O. H. Ger. ganóz, Grff. ii. 1125: Ger. genoss.]

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚾᛖᚪᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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