Scypenn

Old English Dictionary Entry

Scypenn

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 scypenn

f. A shippen [in some northern dialects; also pronounced shup'm (Cumberland)], a cow-house, stall:--Scypen bovile, Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 72. Scipen, 126, 59: bostar vel boviale, i. 58, 25. Scepen, steal, vel fald bovile, stabulum, 15, 23. Ða þing tó begánne ðe tó scipene belimpaþ, Anglia ix. 260, 4. Út wæs gongende tó neáta scypene (adstabula jumentorum), Bd. 4, 24; S. 597, 9. Nǽnig mann scypene his neátum ne timbreþ, l, l; S. 474, 32. Andlang díces on ðæs cinges scypena; of ðan scypenum on ðæt riscbed, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 62, 27. Scipena behweorfan, Anglia ix. 261, 18. [Schepyn boscar (-tar?), Wrt. Voc. i. 178, 10. Schyppune boster, 204. col. 2. The schepne brennyng with the blake smoke, Chauc. Kn. T. 1142.] Cf. scoppa. scypenn

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ᛋᚳᚣᛈᛖᚾᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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