Byrþ-þignenu

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-þínen, e;

byrþ-þignenu

f. A midwife :-- Byrððínenu obstetrix, Germ. 392, 97. Gif wífmen hwæt swylces derige, dó hyre man fram hyre byrþþínene þone sylfan lǽcedóm, Lch. i. 236, 4. byrþ-þignenu