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Ge-wiht

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1 ge-wiht

n. Weight; pondus :-- Twegra pundra gewiht two pounds' weight; dupondius, Ælfc. Gl. 59; Som. 67, 114; Wrt. Voc. 38, 37: Th. Chart. 522, 22: Salm. Kmbl. p. 180, 5. Gange án gemet and án gewihte let one measure and one weight pass, L. Edg. ii. 8; Th. i. 270, 2. Nú hæbbe we hit bioht ongén be ðam ylcan gewihte quam nunc eodem pondĕre reportāvĭmus, Gen. 43, 21: 23, 16: Lefalse weights, L. Eth. let measures and weights be carefully rectified, vi. 32; Th. i. 322, 30: L. C. S. 9; Th. i. 380, 24. Gé etaþ hláf be gewihte ye shall eat bread by weight, Lefor two hundred mancuses of gold by weight and for five pounds by weight of silver, Th. Chart. 557, 28. See Turner's Hist. Anglo-Sax. ii. Appendix ii. [Ger. gewicht.] ge-wiht
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ᚷᛖ-ᚹᛁᚻᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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L.
Latin

Works & Authors

C.
Corpus Christi College MS
Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Som.
Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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