Undern-mete

Old English Dictionary Entry

Undern-mete

Old English Dictionary Entry

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Definitions

1 undern-mete

m. Food eaten in the morning, breakfast :-- Under-mete prandium, ǽfenmete cena, Wrt. Voc. i. 290, 65. Uton brúcan ðisses undernmetes swá ða sculon ðe hiora ǽfengifl on helle gefeccean sculon prandete tamquam apud inferos coenaturi, Ors. 2, 5; Swt. 86, 1. Undernmete prandium, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 22, 4. [An orendron mete, ordrone mete merenda; to etc orendron mete merendare, Cath. Angl. 261, where see note. Goth. undaurni-mats άριστoν, prandium.] undern-mete

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ᚢᚾᛞᛖᚱᚾ-ᛗᛖᛏᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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