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Wudu-wása

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1 wudu-wása

m. A satyr, a faun :-- Satiri, vel fauni, vel celini, vel fauni ficarii unfǽle men, wudewásan, unfǽle wihtu, Wrt. Voc. i. 17, 20. Satyri vel fauni unfǽle men, ficarii vel invii wudewásan, 60, 23-24. Wudewásan faunos, Germ. 394, 242. [Sumwhyle wyth wodwos he werreȝ, þat woned in þe knarreȝ], Gaw. 721. A vestoure wroȝt full of wodwose, and oþer wild bestis, Alex. (Skt.) 1540. Wodewese, woodwose silvanus, satirus, Prompt. Parsilvanus, Wülck. Gl. 612, 2. Wright, in a note to the second of the passages cited above from the Vocabularies, quotes from Withal's Dictionarie (ed. 1608) 'a woodwose satyrus.'] wudu-wasa
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ᚹᚢᛞᚢ-ᚹᚪᛋᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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