Be-fýlan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-fýlan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -fílan; Related words: trans.

Definitions

1 be-fýlan

p. -fýlede; pp. -fýled, -fíled, -fýld; [be, fúl foul] To BEFOUL, pollute, defile, make filthy; inquinare, fœdare, contaminare :-- Befíled, L. Ælf. P. 45; Th. ii. 384, 11 : Basil. admn. 7 ; Norm. 48, 23 : Lchdm. iii. 208, 7 : Cot. 104. be-fylan

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᚠᚣᛚᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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