Geápes

Old English Dictionary Entry

Geápes

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: 2548-9. geapes

Definitions

1 geápes

adv. [gen. of geáp broad, spacious, roomy] In width, wide; lāte :-- Strúdende fýr, steápes and geápes, forswealh eall eador the ravaging fire swallowed all together, high and wide, Cd. 119; Th. 154, 16; Gen. 2556. So Bouterwek takes it, but the word is rather a neuter genitive after 'eall;' cf. v

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ᚷᛖᚪᛈᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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