Gewit-leás

Old English Dictionary Entry

Gewit-leás

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 gewit-leás

adj. Witless, foolish, mad; insanus, amens, stultus :-- Gewitleás amens, Ælfc. Gr. 47; Som. 48, 35. Wurde ðú ðæs gewitleás ðæt ðú waldende þonc ne wisses thou wast so witless that thou wast not grateful to the Lord, Exon. 29 b; Th. 90, 12; Cri. 1473: Bt. Met. Fox 19, 92; Met. 19, 46. ge-witleas,gewit-leas

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖᚹᛁᛏ-ᛚᛖᚪᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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