Nafu

Old English Dictionary Entry

Nafu

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 nafu

f. : nafa (?), an; m. A nave :-- Nafu modialis, Wrt. Voc. i. 284, 55. Sió nafa (nafu, Cott.) néhst ðære eaxe, Bt. 39, 7; Fox 220, 29. Sió nafu, Fox 222, 1. Se nafa, 222, 12. Fæst on ðære nafe, 222, 3, 8, 9, 11, 12. [Icel. nöf : O. H. Ger. naba modiolus.] nafu

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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