Earnung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Earnung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: earning, e; Related words:

Definitions

1 earnung

f. An EARNING, desert, reward, good turn, compassion; mĕrĭtum, misĕratio, compassio:-- For earnunge écan lífes for the reward of eternal life, Hy. 6, 26; Hy. Grn. ii. 286, 26. Hwylce earnung. uncre wǽron such deserts have been ours, Exon. 100a; Th. 377, 3; Seel. 166. Se gewuldorbeágaþ ðé on earnunga qui cŏrōnat te in miseratiōnĭbus, Ps. Spl. 102, 4. DER. ge-earnung. earnung

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ᛠᚱᚾᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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