Stapa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Stapa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: gærsstapa. [

Definitions

1 stapa

m. One who steps. I. a name given to the grasshopper or locust :-- Stapan locuste, Wrt. Voc. ii. 52, 20: 71, 62. O. H. Ger. houui-staffo locusta.] II. in cpds. án-, eard-, hǽþ-, hild-, mearc-, mór-stapa. stapa

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛏᚪᛈᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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