Un-gemetgung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-gemetgung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 un-gemetgung

f. Want of moderation, excess, intemperance :-- 'Coda becumaþ.' Efne hér is foresǽd manna líchamana ungemetegung and geswencednys, Homl. Th. ii. 538, 30. Ðý læs ðæt innegeðonc sié gebunden ðære heortan for ðære ungemetgunge ðæs ymbehogan ðæra úterra ðinga (per moderatam cordis intentionem non impeditur), Past. 18; Swt. 141, 8. un-gemetgung

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᚷᛖᛗᛖᛏᚷᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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