óman

Old English Dictionary Entry

óman

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: next word. oman

Definitions

1 óman

pl. f. Erysipelas, erysipelatous inflammations :-- Óman ignisacrum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 45, 34: 110, 52. Lǽcedómas wið ǽlces cynnes ómum, Lchdm. ii. 98, 21. In the section of which this is the heading the word frequently occurs. Of hómena stiéme cymþ eágna mist, 26, 26. Wið hómum, nim gate horn . . . dó on ða hóman, i. 350, 17-20. Wið hómum (Óman, MS. O. ), báres scearn . . . ða hóman hyt béteþ, 360, 10-11. [Icel. áma ; f. and ámu-sótt erysipelas.

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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