Wéstig

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wéstig

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 wéstig

adj. Waste, desert, desolate :-- Of Angle se á syððan stód wéstig (desertus, Bd. 1, 15), Chr. 449; Erl. 13, 16. Wéstig is stów desertus est locus, Mk. Skt. Rush. 6, 35. Wéstig (woestig, Rush.), Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 23, 38. Woestihg (woestig, Rush.), 14, 15. On woestigum stówe, Lk. Skt. Lind. 4, 42. In wéstige stówe, Mk. Skt. Rush. 1, 35. Woestig, 6, 32. westig

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ᚹᛖᛋᛏᛁᚷ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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