Hám-sittende

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hám-sittende

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 hám-sittende

part. Sitting, dwelling at home, resident :-- Wé beódaþ se mon se ðe his gefán hámsittendne wite ðæt hé ne feohte ǽrðam ðe hé him ryhtes bidde we command that the man who knows his foe to be dwelling at his home fight not before he demand justice, L. Alf. pol. 42; Th. i. 90, 2: Cd. 209; Th. 259, 6; Dan. 687: Andr. Kmbl. 1372; An. 686: Cd. 86; Th. 108, 33; Gen. 1815. [O. Sax. hém-sittiandi.] ham-sittende

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚪᛗ-ᛋᛁᛏᛏᛖᚾᛞᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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