Weorold-níd

Old English Dictionary Entry

Weorold-níd

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -neód, e; Related words:

Definitions

1 weorold-níd

f. Secular need, need in worldly matters, temporal necessity:-- Se cyngc beódeþ eallum his geréfan, ðæt gé ðám abbodan æt eallum worldneódum beorgan swá ge betst magon, L. Eth. ix. 32; Th. i. 346, 30. [O. H. Ger. weralt-nót tribulatio.] weorold-nid

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛇᚱᚩᛚᛞ-ᚾᛁᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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