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Un-deór(-deóre?)

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1 un-deór(-deóre?)

adj. Not dear, cheap, common :-- Undeór hit is vile valet, Wrt. Voc. i. 28, 61. Ðæt hié mon ná undeórran weorðe móste lésan ðonne hié mon be ðam were geeahtige, L. Alf. pol. 32; Th. i. 82, 1. Hé nemde ða undiórestan wyrta ðe on wyrttúnum weaxe and ðeáh swíðe welstincenda cum decimari minima diceret, extrema quidem de oleribus maluit sed tamen bene olentia memorare, Past. 57; Swt. 439, 32. [Undeore he makeð God, þet for eni worldliche luue his luue trukie, A. R. 408, 14. O. H. Ger. un-tiuri vilis: Icel. ú-dýrr cheap, of little value.] un-deor-deore
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᛞᛖᚩᚱ(-ᛞᛖᚩᚱᛖ?)

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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German
Icel.
Icelandic
L.
Latin
O. H. Ger.
Old High German

Works & Authors

Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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