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Ge-nihtsumnes

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f. Abundance, plenty, copiousness, sufficiency; abundantia, ūbertas, cōpia :-- Genihtsumnys abundantia vel cōpia, Wrt. Voc. 83, 40. Genihtsum nys ūbertas, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 18; Som. 10, 7. Gemynd genihtsumnesse wynsumnesse ðínre hí bylcettaþ mĕmŏriam abundantiæ suāvĭtātis tuæ eructābunt, Ps. Lamb. 144, 7. On genihtsumnysse míne in abundantia mea, 29, 7: 77, 25. Híg beóþ gedrencte for genihtsumnisse húses ðínes inebriābuntur ab ūbertāte dŏmus tuæ, 35, 9. Ðære eorþan wæstmbǽrnysse and genihtsumnysse we nellaþ habban us to lífes brícum, ac to oferflówednyssum the fruitfulness and abundance of the earth we will not have for the uses of life, but as superfluities, Homl. Th. ii. 540, 10: 64, 35. ge-nihtsumnes
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚾᛁᚻᛏᛋᚢᛗᚾᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
Som.
Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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