Ge-sweostor

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-sweostor

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -sweostra, -sweostro, -swustra, -swystra Related words: sweostor. ge-sweostor

Definitions

1 ge-sweostor

sisters; sorores; used as the pl. of sweostor :-- His twá dóhtor, swáse gesweostor his two daughters, own sisters, Exon. 112 b; Th. 431, 29; Rä. 47, 3. Ðǽr wǽron twá cwéna ða wǽran gesweostoa there were two queens who were sisters, Ors. 1, 10; Bos. 33, 36. Hwæðer mótan twegen ǽwe gebróðro twá gesweostro on gesinscipe onfón si debeant duo germani fratres singulas sorores accipere, Bd. 1, 27; S. 490, 28. Ðara eádigra ge-sweostra gemynd the commemoration of the blessed sisters, Shrn. 69, 18. [O. Sax. gi-swester: O. H. Ger. gi-suester.] DER. will-gesweostor.

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛋᚹᛇᛋᛏᚩᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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