Scipere

Old English Dictionary Entry

Scipere

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 scipere

m. A sailor:--Hé tealde ðæt his sciperes woldon wændon fram him, búton hé ðé raðor cóme . . . His sciperes geféngon hine and wurpon hine on ðone bát, Chr. 1046; Erl. 174, 13-18. [From Scandinavian(?). Icel. skipari a mariner.] scipere

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛁᛈᛖᚱᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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