Heim-speki
Old Norse Dictionary - heim-speki
Meaning of Old Norse word "heim-speki"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- heim-speki
- f. philosophy, Col. ii. 8; and heim-spekingr, m. a philosopher, now freq. and prob. formed in the 16th century from the Germ. welt-weisheit; a poem Heimspekinga-skóli exists, written at the end of the 17th century.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᛁᛁᛘ-ᛋᛒᛁᚴᛁ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- f.
- feminine.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- Germ.
- German.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- prob.
- probably.