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Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-behéfe

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1 un-behéfe

adj. (or subst.?) Unsuitable, inconvenient, unprofitable :-- Unbehéfe incommodum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 85, 35. [Al þat ure sowle and ure lichame beð unbiheue, O. E. Homl. ii. 7, 30. Also subst. Hie turnden fro him hem seluen to unbihefe, 121, 26.] Cf. un-brýce. un-behefe
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᛒᛖᚻᛖᚠᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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