Symbel-cenness

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - symbel-cenness

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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symbel-cenness
f. The festival of a person's birth:--Of his synibelcenn' de ejus natalicio, Rtl. 80, 17. Symbelcen' ðæt ué ðerh brúca natalicio perfrui, 78, 21. Symbelcenn' natalitiis, 93, 25. Ðaes symbelcennise wé bigóaþ cujus natalitia colimus, 65, 8: 79, 18. Symbelcen', 56, 13: 67, 8. [The meaning seems to require that the two parts of the compound should be separated, but the absence of inflexion in symbel where datives occur in the Latin seems to require the compound.] symbel-cenness
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