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Ge-rif

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1 ge-rif

n. A seizing, taking away, a catching-as of fish, also that which is caught; raptura, captura :-- Án gerif fisca, oððe án snǽs fisca oððe óðra þinga one taking of fish, or one spear of fish, or of other things; una sorta, Mone A. 141; Recd. 37, 77; Wrt. Voc. 64, 9: Ælfc. Gl. 98; Wrt. Voc. 54, 40. DER. fót-síþ-gerif. ge-rif
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚱᛁᚠ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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