Secg-sceára

Old English Dictionary Entry

Secg-sceára

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -scára (-scara ?), an ; Related words: E. D. S. Pub. Names of Birds, p. 177, where

Definitions

1 secg-sceára

m. A corn-crake or a quail :--Secg-scára ortigometra (cf. erschen ortigomera, ii. 63, 53 : edischen, 115, 67), Wrt. Voc. i. 63, 21. bean crake, grass drake, meadow drake, gorse duck are given as names of the corn-crake. [Cf. (?) Icel. skári a sea-mew.] secg-sceara

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛖᚳᚷ-ᛋᚳᛖᚪᚱᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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