Weoloc-scill

Old English Dictionary Entry

Weoloc-scill

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 weoloc-scill

f. A shell-fish, a whelk, cockle: -- Wilocscel (uuiluc-, uuyluc-) conquilium, Txts. 51, 499. Wiolucscel (but Ep. Erf. have ilugsegg) papilivus, 83, 1487. Hér beóþ oft numene missenlícra cynna weolcscylle and muscule exceptis variorum generibus conchyliorum, in quibus sunt et musculae, Bd. 1. 1; S. 473, 17. weoloc-scill

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛇᛚᚩᚳ-ᛋᚳᛁᛚᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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