Spranc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Spranc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: (?), es: spranca, an; Related words:

Definitions

1 spranc

m. A shoot, twig, sprig :-- Spranca (sprauta, Wrt.) sirculus vel virgultum. Wrt. Voc. i. 32, 44. Styb vel spranca (sprauta, Wrt.) stirps, 33, 57. Treówes sprancan plante, 39, 14. Deáðbǽre sprancan letiferas labruscas, Hpt. Gl. 454, 17. Spranca sarmentorum, 468, 22. spranc

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛈᚱᚪᚾᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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