Sin-hwurfol

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sin-hwurfol

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -hwyrfel ; Related words:

Definitions

1 sin-hwurfol

adj. Round, cylindrical :--Sinuurbul, sinuulfur, siunhuurful (sinu- ?) teres, Txts. 104, 1047. Ðonne is swíðe mycel cyrice getimbred, and is sinhwyrfel on wilewísan geworht (cf. under seonu-wealt passage from Shrn. 80, 37), Blickl. Homl. 125, 21. [Cf. O. H. Ger. sin-, sina-[h]werbal teres, rotundus : Icel. sí-valr.] sin-hwurfol

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛁᚾ-ᚻᚹᚢᚱᚠᚩᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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