Old English Dictionary Entry

Twelf-wintre

Related words: 1, 1, Th. 228, 13. Mon ne sparige nǽnne þeóf ofer .xii. winter (twelfwinterne, MS. B. L.) and ofer eahta peningas, 1, 1, Th. i. 198, 17. Gyf hine hwá áfylle ofer twelfwintre (ofer ðæt hé biþ twelfwintre, MS. G.), L. C. S. 20, Th. i. 386, 22. Ǽlc man ofer twelfwintre sylle ðone áð, ðæt hé nelle þeóf beón, 21, Th. i. 388, 6. Ǽlc man ðe beó ofer twelfwintre, Wulfst. 136, 17.

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1 twelf-wintre

adj. Twelve years old:--Úre Hǽlend ðá hé wæs twelfwintre, Past. 49; Swt. 385, 20: Lk. Skt. 2, 42. Tuoelfwintro duodennis, p. 4, 4. Heó wæs twelfwintre erat annorum duodecim, Mk. Skt. 5, 42. Se wæs xii-wintre cniht, Shrn. 118, 13. Hé hæfde áne dohtor neán twelfwintre filia unica erat illi fere annorum duodecim, Lk. Skt. 8, 42. Man ne sparige nánan þeófe ofer .xii. pæningas and ofer .xii.-wintre mann no thief shall be spared above .xii. pence and above a twelve-year old person, L. Ath. Perhaps in the last five passages ofer twelfwintre should be taken as a compound. [Goth. twalib-wintrus.] twelf-wintre

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ᛏᚹᛖᛚᚠ-ᚹᛁᚾᛏᚱᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Lk.: Gospel of St. Luke (OE translation)
Mk.: Gospel of St. Mark (OE translation)
Past.: Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
Shrn.: Shrine (collection of OE texts)
Swt.: Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader

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