Sám-wyrcan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sám-wyrcan

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 sám-wyrcan

to do a thing incompletely:--Gif hwá on fyrde griðbryce fulwyrce . . . Gif hé sámwyrce . . . , L. C. S. 62; Th. i. 408, 23. [Cf. sám-bryce.] Fæsten wæs sámworht the fort was not finished, Chr. 892; Erl. 88, 34. Stántorr (the tower of Babel) sámworht stód, Cd. Th. 102, 16; Gen. 1701. sam-wyrcan

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚪᛗ-ᚹᚣᚱᚳᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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