Ge-sibbian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-sibbian

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 ge-sibbian

p. ode, ade, ede; pp. od, ad, ed [sibbian to pacify] To make peaceful, pacify, appease, gladden; pācāre, pācĭfĭcāre, concĭliāre, lætĭfĭcāre :-- Ic gesibbige concĭlio, Ælfc. Gl. 76; Som. 74, 18; Wrt. Voc. 50, 2. He gesibbade ða cyningas betwih and ða folc pācātis altĕrŭtrum rēgĭbus ac pŏpŭlis, Bd. 4, 21; S. 590, 22. Gesibbedan sáwle míne lætĭfĭcāvērunt anĭmam meam, Ps. Th. 93, 18. Ðá he hæfde ðone híréd gesibbodne when he had reconciled the household, Blickl. Homl. 225, 10. [Goth. ga-sibjon to reconcile: O. H. Ger. ge-sippot united.] ge-sibbian

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛋᛁᛒᛒᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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