Sprytele

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sprytele

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: sprítele(?), an; Related words: quotation from Jamieson's Dict. under

Definitions

1 sprytele

f. A twig, chip. (sprot):--Men of ðære ylcan styde sprytlan ácurfon astulis ex ipsa destina excisis, Bd. 3, 17; S. 544, 43. [Halliwell gives sprittel a sprout or twig. Cf. O. H. Ger. spruzil: M. H. Ger. sprüzzel rung of a ladder. Or(?) cf. M. H. Ger. sprízel a splinter.] and spreót. sprytele

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛈᚱᚣᛏᛖᛚᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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