Hengest

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hengest

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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hengest
m. A gelding, horse, steed :-- Hengst canterius, Ælfc. Gl. 20; Som. 59, 46; Wrt. Voc. 23, 8. Án hundred wildra horsa and xvi tame hencgestas a hundred wild horses and sixteen tame steeds, Chart. Th. 548, 11. [Laym. hængest: O. Frs. hengst: Icel. hestr a stallion, horse: O. H. Ger. hengist eunuchus, spado, cantarius, equus castratus: Ger. hengst a stallion.] DER. brim-, faroþ-, fæt-, fríd-, mere-, sǽ-, sund-, wǽg-hengest. hengest
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