Plegere

Old English Dictionary Entry

Plegere

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: pleg-mann. plegere

Definitions

1 plegere

m. A player, athlete, wrestler :-- Nacod plegere gimnosophista (the glosser seems to have misunderstood the word, which is rendered by heáhláreów, Wrt. Voc. ii. 40-40, and by weoroldsnottor, 81, 52), Wrt. Voc. i. 17, 10.

Runic Inscription

ᛈᛚᛖᚷᛖᚱᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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