Bet-nes

Old English Dictionary Entry

Bet-nes

Old English Dictionary Entry

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

Definitions

1 bet-nes

f. [bet better] Satisfaction, amends, amendment, recompence; satisfactio, compensatio :-- Ðæt ic búton betnesse beó mínra synna that I am, without amendment of my sins, L. De Cf. 10; Th. ii. 264, 16. bet-nes

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖᛏ-ᚾᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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