Embe-gang

Old English Dictionary Entry

Embe-gang

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: ymbe-gang. embe-gang

Definitions

1 embe-gang

m. A going round, circuit; circuĭtus :-- Se embegang ðara landa the circuit of the lands, Cod. Dipl. Apndx. 402; A. D. 944;Kmbl. iii. 421, 6. Se móna hæfþ læstne embegang the moon has the least circuit, Boutr. Scrd. 18, 38. Embegang dón processiōnem făcĕre, R. Conc. 3.

Runic Inscription

ᛖᛗᛒᛖ-ᚷᚪᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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