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tún-scipe

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
tún-scipe, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§611;
The inhabitants of a tún
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  • Cýþe hé hit ðonne hé hám cyme; and gif hit cuce orf biþ mid his túnscipes gewitnysse on gemǽnre lǽse gebringe. Gif hé swá ne déð ǽr fíf nihtum, cýþan hit ðæs túnes men ðam hundredes ealdre,

    • L. Edg. S. 8
    • ;
    • Th. i. 274, 26.
  • Hé hét ðone túnscipe eallne ofsleán and ðone tún forbærnan

    mittens occidit vicanos illos omnes, vicumque incendio consumpsit,

    • Bd. 5, 10
    • ;
    • S. 625, 1.
Etymology
[
Gif twa men oþer iii coman ridend to an tun, al þe tunscipe flugæn for heom,Chr. 1137; Erl. 262, 35.
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  • tún-scipe, n.