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Ge-sundful

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1 ge-sundful

Add: I. of living things, in good health. Cf. gesund ; I :-- Ðǽm cilde wæs sóna bet. Þá cwǽdon þá gedwolmen . . . ꝥhis sunu wǽre gesundful þurh hí, Hml. S. 3, 315. Hé gesundful síðode on fótum, sé ðe on bǽre þider geboren wæs, Hml. Th. ii. 150, 14: 136, 5. Ysle gesundfullum asello sospite, i. sano, An. Ox. 3664. (2) of things. Cf. ge-sund; I. 2 :-- His swíðre hand is gesundful oð þis, Hml. S. 26, 103. II. prosperous, happy. Cf. ge-sund; IV :-- Hwíl-tídum þeós weorold is gesundful, hwílon heó is mid mislicum þingum gemenged, Hml. Th. i. 182, 34. Ðurh cynincges wísdóm folc wyrð gesǽlig, gesundful, sigefæst, Ll. Th. ii. 306, 5. Gesundfullum gesǽli-nessum secundis successibus, An. Ox. 1581 : 3632 : prosperis (i. letis) successibus, 3994. ge-sundful,ge-sund-ful
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ᚷᛖ-ᛋᚢᚾᛞᚠᚢᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Hml.
Homilies (Ælfric or other)
Ll.
Laws of the Anglo-Saxons
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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