Spír

Old English Dictionary Entry

Spír

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: E. D. S. Pub. Plant Names, where

Definitions

1 spír

a spire [spire is given as the name of the reed and of various spiked grasses. The word is also used of tapering trees, Prompt. Parv. spyre of corne or herbe hastula, spyryn UNCERTAIN as corne and oþer lyke spico. Imeind mid spire and grene segge, O. and N. 18. The word occurs in Chaucer and Piers Plowman. Icel. spíra a spar: Dan. spire a sprout; spir a spar: Swed. spira a spar; a sceptre; a pistil.] spir

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛈᛁᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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