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Wíf-cyn[n]

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1 wíf-cyn[n]

n. I. woman-kind, women :-- Ðæt hí of ðam wífcynne him cyning curan ut de feminea regum prosapia regem sibi eligerent, Bd. 1, 1; S. 474, 22. Ðú eart gebletsod betuh ealle wífcyn (in mulieribus, Lk. 1, 28), Blickl. Homl. 143, 18. [Wiðuten wifkin and childre besides women and children, Gen. and Ex. 656.] II. female sex :-- Óþer ðara is wǽpnedcynnes, sunnan trió, óþer wífkynnes, ðæt mónan trió quarum lignum virile est solis, alterum est femineum lune, Nar. 25, 18. Hwylce wihta beóð óðre tíd wífcynnes, óðre tíd wǽpned-cynnes? Salm. Kmbl. p. 202, 12 : Lchdm. iii. 10, 12. wif-cynn
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ᚹᛁᚠ-ᚳᚣᚾ[ᚾ]

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Lk.
Gospel of St. Luke (OE translation)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
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