Hand-hwíl

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hand-hwíl

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 hand-hwíl

f. A moment :-- Nis ná eów tó gewitenne ða tíd oððe ða handhwíle ðe mín Fæder gesette þurh his mihte it is not for you to know the hour or the moment that my Father hath appointed through his might, Homl. Th. i. 294, 26. [Orm. inn an hanndhwile in a moment of time: A. R. hondhwule: Piers P. handwhile.] hand-hwil

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚪᚾᛞ-ᚻᚹᛁᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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