Níten-cynn

Old English Dictionary Entry

Níten-cynn

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 níten-cynn

n. A kind of cattle :-- Hé gesceóp æf ðǽre eorðan eall nýtencynn and deórcynn (jumenta et bestias), Hml. Th. i. 16, 5. Eall nýtencynn and ðá wildan deór, Hex. 14, 29. niten-cynn

Runic Inscription

ᚾᛁᛏᛖᚾ-ᚳᚣᚾᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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