On-efn

Old English Dictionary Entry

On-efn

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -emn, -em Related words:

Definitions

1 on-efn

by, near :-- Hí gemétton fýr, and hláf onem they found a fire, and bread close by, Homl. Th. ii. 262, 5. Onefen ðone hagan . . . norþ onefen ðæt gelád, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 150, 10-13. Onemn ðæm at the same time, Ors. 3, 9; Swt. 128, 33. See efn, emn for other examples. on-efn

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚾ-ᛖᚠᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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