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Inne-weard

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1 inne-weard

adj. Inward, internal, interior; the word may generally be rendered by the phrase the inner part of [the noun with which it agrees]. In the neut. sing. and pl. it is used as a noun, intestines, viscera, the inward part :-- Inneweard þeoh femen, Ælfc. Gl. 75 ; Som. 71, 78 ; Wrt. Voc. 44, 60. Ðes windiga sele eall inneweard all the interior of this windy hall, Cd. 216; Th. 273, 15; Sat. 137. Hú héh and deóp hell inneweard seó, 228; Th. 309, 10; Sat. 707 : Beo. Th. 2000; B. 998. Tó inneweardum ðam wéstene ad interiora deserti, Ex. 3, 1. Ðá com of inneweardre ðære byrigenne swá mycel swétnysse stencg tantæ fragrantia suavitatis ab imis ebullivit, Bd. 3, 8 ; S. 532, 17. Of inneweardre heortan intimo ex corde, 2, 1; S. 501, 14 : 3, 27; S. 559. 4. Mid inneweardum móde with all my mind, Bt. 22, 1; Fox 76, 7, 24. Inneweard intestina, Ælfc. Gl. 74; Som. 71, 62; Wrt. Voc. 44, 44. Innoþes innewearde viscera, 75; Som. 71, 99; Wrt. Voc. 45. 7. Ðá gewand him út eall his innewearde all his intestines came out, Homl. Th. i. 290, 19. Etaþ ðæt heáfod and ða fét and ðæt innewearde, ii. 264, 6: 280, 7. Etaþ his heáfod and his fét and innewærde caput cum pedibus ejus et intestinis vorabitis, Ex. 12, 9. Innewerde, 29, 17.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛁᚾᚾᛖ-ᚹᛠᚱᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Beo.
Beowulf
Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Cd.
Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Som.
Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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