Un-wittig

Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-wittig

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: un-gewittig. un-wittig

Definitions

1 un-wittig

adj; Without wit or understanding, (1) not in a bad sense :-- Ge weras, ge wíf and ða unwittigan cild, Homl. Ass. 29, 122. (2) in a bad sense :-- Wel déd se ðe unwittigum stýrð mid swinglum, gif hé mid wordum ne mæg. Hit is áwriten: 'Ne bið se stunta mid wordum gerihtlǽced,' Homl. Th. ii. 532, 13. Þeówian unclǽnum deóflum and ðám unwittigum heargum, Homl. Skt. ii. 30, 52. [Þat nan ne beo so wilde, nan swa unwitti, þat word talie ær he ihere minne horn, Laym. 786. Stew þine unwittie wordes, Marh. 6, 2. O. H. Ger. un-wizzig insipiens, inprovidus, insanus.]

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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