An-feng

Old English Dictionary Entry

An-feng

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: and-feng. an-feng

Definitions

1 an-feng

m. A taking to one's self, a receiving, defence, defender; assumptio, susceptio, susceptor :-- Drihtnes anfeng úre Domini assumptio nostra, Ps. Spl. 88, 18. He anfeng mín ipse susceptor metis, 61, 2: Runic pm. 3; Hick. Thes. i. 135; Kmbl. 340, 1.

Runic Inscription

ᚪᚾ-ᚠᛖᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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