Sápe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sápe

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: sáp) :-- Sápe

Definitions

1 sápe

f. Soap, salve (? sapo (sopo, MS.), Wrt. Voc. i. 86, 12: lumentum, ii. 54, 4. Hé biþ ðonne áþwogen fram his synnum þurh ða untrumnysse, swá swá horig hrægl þurh sápan, Homl. Th. i. 472, 6. [Monie of þas wimmen smurieð heom mid blanchet, þet is þes deofles sápe (unguent?), O. E. Homl. i. 53, 24. Þe wreche peoddare more noise he makeð to ȝeien his sope, þen a riche mercer al his deorewurðe ware, A. R. 66, 18. O. H. Ger. seifa sabona, smigma; also resina.]

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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