Tawa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Tawa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: (?) Related words: 490. Halliwell gives

Definitions

1 tawa

an implement, a tool, an article for use in an employment. [That towe (part of a cart) is toothed thicke, Pall. 159, 36. Tew of fyschynge piscalia, in plurali reciaria, Prompt. Partow = tools, apparatus, as a word of the East of England. O. Du. touwe the instrument of a weaver.]

Runic Inscription

ᛏᚪᚹᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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