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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-nyht

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n: e; f. [O. H. Ger. ganuht, f.] An abundance, plenty, sufficiency, fulfilment; abundantia, ubertas :-- Ðeáh mon nú anweald and genyht to twǽm þingum nemne though any one call power and abundance two things, Bt. 33, 1; Fox 120, 20. Ðætte genyht wǽre gesǽlða that sufficiency was happiness, 35, 3; Fox 158, 13.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚾᚣᚻᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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German

Works & Authors

Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
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