Wisc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wisc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: 179, 34. [Cf. (?)

Definitions

1 wisc

a marsh (?) :-- Concede terram in loco qui dicitur Fearnleág (Farleigh, in Kent, by the Medway) & an myclan wisce vi. æceres mǣde (and in the big marsh vi. acres of meadow (?)), Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 128, 33. Cf. Wiscleágeat, O. H. Ger. Wisicha . (place-name).] wisc,-wisc

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ᚹᛁᛋᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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