feorran ymbutan
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Old English[edit]
Adverb[edit]
- (of language) in a roundabout or circumlocutory manner
- c. 900, The Old English Boethius
- Þā ongan hē sprecan swīðe fiorran ymbūtan
- Then he began to speak in a very roundabout way
- c. 900, The Old English Boethius