Un-spéd

Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-spéd

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 un-spéd

f. Want, indigence, penury :-- Unspéde inopiae, Ps. Spl. 43, 27. For unspéda prae inopia, 87, 9. Ðiós of unspoed (unspoedum, Rush.) hire alle ða ðe hæfde sende haec de paenuria sua omnia quae habuit misit, Mk. Skt. Lind. 12, 44. [It fel to mikel unspede it turned out very unfortunate, C. M. 15420. O. Sax. un-spód disadvantage O. H. Ger. un-spuot.] un-sped

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ᚢᚾ-ᛋᛈᛖᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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