Hnitol

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hnitol

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 hnitol

adj. Given to striking, thrusting, pushing, having the head bent [as an animal when it butts (?)] :-- Hnitol vel eádmód cernuus, pronus vel inclinatus, Ælfc. Gl. 9; Som. 56, 116; Wrt. Voc. 19, 1. Gif se oxa hnitol wǽre si bos cornupeta fuerit, Ex. ii. 29, 36: L. Alf. 21; Th. i. 48, 29. hnitol

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚾᛁᛏᚩᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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