Be-stapan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-stapan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: he -stæpþ; Related words:

Definitions

1 be-stapan

p. -stóp, pl. -stópon; pp. -stapen To step, step upon, tread with the foot, go, enter; gradi, calcare, ire, inire :-- Eall ðæt rýmet, ðe eówer fótswaðu on bestæpþ omnem locum, quem calcaverit vestigium pedis vestri, Jos. 1, 3. Se deófol into Iudan bestóp the devil went [entered] into Judas, Homl. Th. ii. 242, 14. be-stapan

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᛋᛏᚪᛈᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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