Or-wena

Old English Dictionary Entry

Or-wena

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: next word. or-wena

Definitions

1 or-wena

adj. with gen. Hopeless, despairing :-- Ðá wearþ his agen sunu yfele geuntrumed, and orwéna lífes læg æt /orþsíðe, Homl. Skt. i. 3, 301: Beo. Th. 2008 ; B. 1002 : 3134; 6. 1565: Exon. Th. 329, 27; Vy. 40. Friþes orwéna, 261, 25 ; Jul. 320. Ic eom orwéna, ðæt. . . ,Cd. Th. 134, 10; Gen. 2222. Wǽron orwénan éðelrihtes, 191, 7; Exod. 211. Sindon gé firenum bifongne, feores orwénan, Exon. Th. 139, 27; Gú. 599.

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚱ-ᚹᛖᚾᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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