Ge-rif

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-rif

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

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

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚱᛁᚠ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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