For-wird

Old English Dictionary Entry

For-wird

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: for-wyrd. for-wird

Definitions

1 for-wird

f. Loss, destruction, ruin, perdition; perdĭtio, intĕrĭtio :-- Hira forwirde dæg ys gehende juxta est dies perdĭtiōnis, Deut. 32, 35. He generode hí of forwirdum heora erĭpuit eos de intĕrĭtiōnĭbus eōrum, Ps. Spl. 106, 20.

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᚱ-ᚹᛁᚱᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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