Niht-scúa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Niht-scúa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -scúwa, an ; Related words:

Definitions

1 niht-scúa

m. The darkness, shades of night :-- Ðonne nípeþ nihtscúa, Exon. Th. 292, 24 ; Wand. 104 : 307, 29 ; Seef. 31. Æfter nihtscúan, 162, 5 ; Gú. 971. Under nihtscúwan, Cd. Th. 124, 10; Gen. 2060. Neowle nihtscúwan, 184, 28; Exod. 114. niht-scua

Runic Inscription

ᚾᛁᚻᛏ-ᛋᚳᚢᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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