Hwílen

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hwílen

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: un-hwílen. hwilen

Definitions

1 hwílen

adj. Lasting only for a time, transitory, brief :-- Uton sibbe tó him on ðás hwílnan tíd hǽlu sécan let us seek in this brief season [the present life] peace and salvation from him, Exon. 97 b; Th. 365, 10; Wal. 87. [O. H. Ger. hwílin temporalis.]

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚹᛁᛚᛖᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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