Fót-mǽl

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fót-mǽl

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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fót-mǽl
In l. 3 for foot-mark read foot, and add: (1) a foot as a measure :-- Men on lenge syx fótmæla lange homines statura pedum .vi., Nar. 35, 2. On lenge hundteontiges fótmæla and fíftiges lange, 36, 12. (2) some kind of cross (?

Related words: mǽl; II) :-- Of ðám hamme tó fótmǽle; of fótmǽle éstrihtes on wulfputt, C.D. iii. 449, 30. v. furh. fot-mæl

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