Ginne

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ginne

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: un-ginne. ginne

Definitions

1 ginne

adj. Wide, spacious, ample, broad (lands). I. having a large area:--Of þǽre ginnan byrig, Jud. 149. Seó æftre eá Ethiopia land and leódgeard beligeð úton, ginne ríce (a broad realm), Gen. 230. Ic weóld folce Deniga and heóld ginne ríce (gim merice, MS.), B. 466. I a. as an epithet of the earth:--Bið eal þess ginna grund (this wide world) gléda gefylled, Dóm. 12. In þýs ginnan grunde, Jud. 2. Ic geondférde fela fremdra londa geond ginne grund, Víd. 51. Under gynne grund under the broad earth, B. 1551. II. ample, of great amount:--Hé him grundwelan ginne sealde, hét þám sinhíwum sǽs and eorðan túddorteóndra teohha gehwilcre wæstmas fédan, Gen. 457. [Cf. Icel. ginn-; and see Grmm. D. M. 297.]

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛁᚾᚾᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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