Port-geat

Old English Dictionary Entry

Port-geat

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 port-geat

n. The gate of a town :-- Portgeat porta, Wrt. Voc. i. 36, 37 : 84, 38. Fare ðæt wíf tó ðam portgate perget mulier ad portam civitatis, Deut. 25, 7, Ðá dá hé geneálǽhte ðam portgeate (cf. ðære ceastre gate, Lk. Skt. 7, 12), Homl. Th. i. 490, 30. Ðæt portgeat getácnaþ sum líchamlíc andgit ðe menn þurh syngiaþ, 492, 13. Hé ðaportgeatu ealle beeode, Homl. Skt. i. 23, 507. port-geat

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ᛈᚩᚱᛏ-ᚷᛠᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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