Idig

Old English Dictionary Entry

Idig

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 idig

; adj. Busy, active :-- Tóþas idge busy teeth [referring to the eating of the forbidden fruit by Adam and Eve], Exon. 61 b ; Th. 226, 18; Ph. 407. [Cf. Icel. iðja activity: iðinn assiduous, diligent; iðja to be active, busy. The passage is somewhat uncertain, as the MS. has to þas, and Thorpe prints as if there were a gap between þas and idge.] idig

Runic Inscription

ᛁᛞᛁᚷ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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