Tweógend-líc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Tweógend-líc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: un-tweógendlíc. tweogend-lic

Definitions

1 tweógend-líc

adj. Doubtful, uncertain, (1) where doubt is felt:--Tweógendlícre (sine) ancipiti (ambiguitatis scrupulo veraciter credendum est), Hpt. Gl. 422, 32. Hé on tweógendlícan onbide wæs (quem cunctantem), hwæðer hé winnan dorste, Ors. 4, 11; Swt. 204, 28. (2) where doubt is caused:--Is tweógendlíc ðysse worulde wela, Wulfst. 263, 11. Tweógendlícra gewrita Apocryphorum, Hpt. Gl. 522, 48.

Runic Inscription

ᛏᚹᛖᚩᚷᛖᚾᛞ-ᛚᛁᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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