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Old English Dictionary Entry

Sníte

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1 sníte

f. A snite, snipe. [Halliwell quotes: 'A snipe or snite, a bird lesse than a woodcocke,' Baret, 1580, and gives snite as a word still in use. See also E. D. S. Pub. Bird Names, p. 192.]:--Sníte vel wude-cocc aceta, Wrt. Voc. i. 29, 52. Sníte acegia, 62, 23: ii. 4, 36: 99, 14. [In later glossaries snyte glosses ibis, i. 177, 29: 253, 1. Prompt. Parv. snype or snyte ibex.] snite
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚾᛁᛏᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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