Wyrht

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wyrht

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: for-, ge-, leóþ-, stán-wyrht. wyrht

Definitions

1 wyrht

f. Doing, work :-- Ná ðú be gewyrhtum úrum, wommum wyrhtum, woldest ús dón non secundum peccata nostra fecit nobis, Ps. Th. 102, 10. [Betere þenne we habbeð wrihte, O. E. Homl. i. 69, 251. Bi mine wrihte, ii. 217, 19. Æffterr hise wrihhte, Orm. 8240. O. H. Ger. wuruht meritum.]

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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