Páwa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Páwa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: peá, an; Related words:

Definitions

1 páwa

m. : páwe, an; f. Peacock, peahen :-- Páwa pavo, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 3 ; Som. 8, 34, Pauua, Txts. 90, 826. Pawa, Wrt. Voc. i. 77, 24. Páwe, pavo, pavus, 29, 4. Fuglas ða ðe heard flǽsc habbaþ, páwa, swan, æned, Lchdm. ii. 196, 19. On ðære ylcan stówe byþ óðer fugelcynn fenix hátte ða habbaþ cambas on heáfde swá páwan in eo monte est avis fenix que habet cristas quasi orbes pavonis, Nar. 39, 4. Se fugel (the phenix) is onlícost peán, Exon. Th. 219, 25; Ph. 312. [A pruest proud as a po, Pol. Songs, 159, 15 : Wick. poos ; pl.: O. H. Ger. pfáwo : Icel. pá or pái (as a nickname). From Latin.] pawa

Runic Inscription

ᛈᚪᚹᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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