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Old English Dictionary Entry

Scyte-finger

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1 scyte-finger

m. The forefinger; digitus secundus quo sagittatur:--Scytefinger index vel salutaris, Wrt. Voc. i. 44. 5. Bécnend, scytefinger index, ii. 46, 35. Gif se scytefinger biþ ofáslegen, sió bót biþ .xIn Ethelbert's Laws the fine is only eight shillings, L. Eth. 54; Th. i. 16, 10. Scytefingres, Anglia viii. 326, 28. Euenmicel swá ðú mǽge mid ðínan scitefingre tó ðínum þuman befón, Lchdm. iii. 6, 21. Mid scetefingre ðú gebécnest indice prodis, Hymn. Surt. 104, 5. [Cf. O. Frs. skot-finger.]
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᚣᛏᛖ-ᚠᛝᛖᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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L.
Latin
O. Frs.
Old Frisian

Works & Authors

Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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