A-wyrdnys

Old English Dictionary Entry

A-wyrdnys

Old English Dictionary Entry

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

Definitions

1 a-wyrdnys

f. Hurt, injury, damage, ruin, destruction; læsio, labes, damnum :-- Crist mihte, bútan awyrdnysse his lima, nyðer-asceótan Christ could, without injury of his limbs, cast himself down, Homl. Th. i. 170, 22. Awyrdnyss labes, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 27; Som. 11, 25: 13; Som. 16, 5. a-wyrdnys

Runic Inscription

ᚪ-ᚹᚣᚱᛞᚾᚣᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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