Hinder-genga

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hinder-genga

Old English Dictionary Entry

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Definitions

1 hinder-genga

m. I. one that goes backward (epithet of a crab) :-- Hindergenga retrograda (Nepa mihi nomen . , . passibus Oceanum retrograda transeo versis. Aid. 254, 30), An. Ox. 26, 23. II. one that goes back from the faith he has professed, an apostate (cf. Manega his leorningcnihtas cyrdon onbæc and ne eódun mid him, Jn. 6, 66. Homo apostata, i. retrogradiens, Kent. Gl. 141) :-- Hindergengena apostatarum. An. Ox. 5, 16. hinder-genga

Runic Inscription

ᚻᛁᚾᛞᛖᚱ-ᚷᛖᛝᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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