Stefning

Old English Dictionary Entry

Stefning

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: stemning, e; Related words: stefn;

Definitions

1 stefning

f. I. a turn, used of service where one set of persons replaces another. (In E. Cornwall Glossary stemming is given as 'a turn in succession, as when in dry seasons people have to take their regular turn for water at the common pump') :-- Hié (seó fyrd) hæfdan heora stemninge (steminge, another MS.) gesetene, Chr. 894; Th. i. 166, col. 2, l. 14. m.; stefnan, II. II. a border, hem :-- Stemning vel hem limbus, Wrt. Voc. i. 26, 6. to fringe. stefning

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ᛋᛏᛖᚠᚾᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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