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eóh

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
eóh, = iw; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§86; §328; §337;
The Anglo-Saxon Rune RUNE = eó, the name of which letters in Anglo-Saxon is eóh = íw a yew-tree; taxus, — hence this Rune not only stands for the diphthong eo, but for eoh a yew-tree, as, — RUNE [Eóh] biþ útan unsméðe treów, heard, hrusan fæst yew is outwardly an unsmooth tree, hard, fast in the earth,
  • Hick. Thes. i. 135,
  • 25;
  • Runic pm. 13
  • ;
  • Kmbl. 341,
  • 26.
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v. íw and RÚN.
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  • eóh, n.