Slíw

Old English Dictionary Entry

Slíw

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: sleów, sliú, slí, es; Related words:

Definitions

1 slíw

m. The name of a fish, a tench or a mullet :-- Slíw tinca, Wrt. Voc. i. 55, 73: tinctus, 281, 52. Sliú tincus, 66, 1. . Sleów mugilis, ii. 57, 75. Slí tincti, Txts. 101, 2020. Slii, 116, 221. [O. H. Ger. slío; m. tinca, tincus: Ger. schleie a tench.] sliw

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ᛋᛚᛁᚹ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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