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Old English Dictionary Entry

Uma

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1 uma

m. I. a weaver's beam :-- Uma scapus, Wrt. Voc. i. 66, 25: scafus, 282, 8 (in each case the word occurs in a list of terms connected with weaving). Huma scafus, Corpus Gl. ed. Hessels 106, 206 (the word is omitted by Wright in Voc. ii. 120, 26, and in Txts. 97, 1832). II. the name of some plant :-- Genim uman, and medmicelne bollan fulne ealað; bewyl ðæt ealo on ðære wyrte, Lchdm. ii. 276, 12. uma
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚢᛗᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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