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ge-byre

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
ge-byre, es; m.
The time at which anything happens, a favourable time, an opportunity; occasio, opportunitas
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  • Hwonne him eft gebyre weorþe, hám cymeþ

    when there shall again be an opportunity to him he will come home,

    • Exon. 90 b; Th. 340, 3
    • ;
    • Gn. Ex. 105
    • .
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. gaburi, f. eventus, casus
.]
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v. byre, ge-byrian.
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