Tóm

Old English Dictionary Entry

Tóm

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: 496; temyñ or maken empty

Definitions

1 tóm

adj. Empty; figuratively, free from. Cf. leás :-- Ðæt hý móstun mánweorca tóme lifgan and tíres blǽd écne ágan (cf. the man farid imu an giwald Godes tionono tómig, Hél. 2490), Exon. Th. 74, 26; Cri. 1212. [Tome saule (animam inanem) he filled with fode, Ps. 106, 9. Yee sal find þair tumbs tome (tume), C. M. 17798; Toom or voyde vacuus, Prompt. Parvacua, evacuo, 488. Scott, toom, tume: Icel. tómr: Dan. tom.] tom

Runic Inscription

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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