Mageþe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Mageþe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: mægþa. mageþe

Definitions

1 mageþe

f. A plant-name, maythe, chamomile, ox-eye :-- Mageþe beneolentem [camemelon], Wrt. Voc. i. 67, 27: obtalmon, 68, 50. Magoþe optalmon, ii. 65, 52. Ðás wyrte ðe man camemelon, and óðrum naman mageþe nemneþ, Herb. 24; Lchdm. i. 120, 14. Wildre magþan wyrttruman (matricaria chamomilla) L. M. 2, 22; Lchdm. ii. 206, 15. Magoðe, L. M. 5, 64; Lchdm. ii. 140, 7. Ða reádan magoþan (anthemis tinctoria), 140, 4. [Maiþe camomilla, Wrt. Voc. i. 140, 27. Mathen (maythe) ameroke, 162, 20. Maythe embroca, 190, 51. See Lchdm. ii. 398, col. 2, iii. 337, col. 1, and E. D. S. Plant-names under mathes and May-weed.]

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ᛗᚪᚷᛖᚦᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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