Un-hneáw

Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-hneáw

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 un-hneáw

adj. Not niggardly, liberal, bounteous, (1) giving liberally :-- Sumne hí gemétaþ geofum unhneáwne, Exon. Th. 326, 36; Víd. 139. Ælfwine hæfde heortan unhneáweste hringa gedáles, 323, 3; Víd. 73. (2) given liberally, abundant :-- Geofum unhneáwum, 43, 10; Cri. 686. [Icel. ú-hnöggr.] un-hneaw

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᚻᚾᛖᚪᚹ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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