Hoferian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hoferian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: ge-hoferod, hoferede. hoferian

Definitions

1 hoferian

to be humpbacked :-- Houeriendne (hoferiiendne, An. Ox. 3662) gibbum, Hpt. Gl. 492, 40. Hoferedne cyppum (= gibbum, Ald. 50, 21, the passage to which this and the preceding gloss belong), Wrt. Voc. ii. 82, 78.

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚩᚠᛖᚱᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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