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HYPE

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1 HYPE

m. The HIP, haunch, upper part of the thigh :-- Hype clunis, Wrt. Voc. 71, 49: ilia, ii. 110, 54. Ánra gehwylc hæfde sweord ofer his hype for nihtlícum ege every man had his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night [Song of Sol. 3, 8], Blickl. Homl. 11, 18. Dó his sweord tó his hype ponat vir gladium super femur suum, Past. 49, 2; Swt. 383, 2. Hypas clunes, Ælfc. Gl. 74; Som. 71, 70; Wrt. Voc. 44, 52. [A. R. R. Glouc. hupe: Wick. Chauc. hipe, hippe: Goth. hups; m: Icel. huppr: m: O. H. Ger. huf; f. femur, coxa, clunis: Ger. hüfte.] hype-,hype
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Ger.
German
Goth.
Gothic
Icel.
Icelandic
O. H. Ger.
Old High German

Works & Authors

Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
Som.
Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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