Heóþu

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - heóþu

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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heóþu
f. A room, hall :-- Hé on heóþe gestód he in the hall halted, Beo. Th. 813; B. 404. [Dietrich in Haupt. x. 366 compares the word with κυtonos;τos: Heyne suggests a derivation from the root from which comes heáh, and translates as do Kemble and Thorpe dais, at the same time he gives the other etymology as a possible one.]

Related words: hell-heóþo. heoþu

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