Magu-timber

Old English Dictionary Entry

Magu-timber

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 magu-timber

n. I. A child :-- Ðá heó wæs magotimbre eácen worden when she was with child, Cd. 101; Th. 134, 36; Gen. 2235. Mé sealde sunu sigora waldend, and mé cearsorge mid ðýs magotimbre of móde ásceáf, 55; Th. 68, 10; Gen. 1115. [Cf. Icel. manns-efni (efni material, stuff) a promising young man.] II. progeny, all those who are born :-- Ne sý ðæs magutimbres gemet ofer eorþan gif hí ne wanige se ðás worulde teóde there would be no bounds upon earth to those who are born, if they waned not through him that created the world, Exon. 89 a; Th. 335, 13; Gn. Ex. 33. magu-timber

Runic Inscription

ᛗᚪᚷᚢ-ᛏᛁᛗᛒᛖᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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