Weorold-gebyrd[u]

Old English Dictionary Entry

Weorold-gebyrd[u]

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: ge-byrd. weorold-gebyrdu

Definitions

1 weorold-gebyrd[u]

f. Birth (natural not spiritual) :-- Hé wæs on his móde æþelra ðonne on woruldgebyrdum erat animo quam carne nobilior, Bd. 3, 19; S. 547, 26. Wæs heó æþele in weoruldgebyrdum, ðæt heó wæs ðæs cyninges nefan dohtor nobilis natu erat, hoc est, filia nepotis regis, 4, 23; S. 593, 2.

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛇᚱᚩᛚᛞ-ᚷᛖᛒᚣᚱᛞ[ᚢ]

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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