Hám-weard

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hám-weard

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: Homeward, in the direction of home;

Definitions

1 hám-weard

ad domum versus, retro :-- Ðá heó hámwerd wæs when it was on its way home, H. R. 103, 24. Ðá hý hámweard wǽron when they were on the way home, Ors. 4, 6; Bos. 85, 38, Égeas wearþ gelǽht fram atelícum deófle hámwerd be wege ǽrðan hé tó húse cóme Ægeas was seized by a horrible devil on the way home, before he came to his house, Homl. Th. i. 598, 23. Æþelwulf ðá him hámweard fór Ethelwulf then journeyed homeward, Chr. 855; Erl. 68, 29: 885; Erl. 82, 30. Se esne hig hámweard lǽdde tó his hláforde the servant brought her home to his lord, Gen. 24, 61. ham-weard

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚪᛗ-ᚹᛠᚱᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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