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æþeling

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Wright's OE grammar
§10; §58; §155; §339; §607;
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a prince of an English royal house
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  • Æþelingc clito (clitones

    universim filii omnes regnm apud Anglo-Saxones,

    Migne),
      Wrt. Voc. i. 72, 62.
  • Æðeling,

      42, 15.
  • Æþeling

    clyton,

    ii.
      22, 40.
  • Ceadwalla West-Seaxna æþeling (

    de regio genere Geuissorum

    ),
      Bd. 4, 15; S. 583, 25.
  • Æðelwald (

    Edward's cousin

    ) æðeling and Byrhtsige Beornóðes sunu æðelinges,
      Chr. 905; P. 94, 12.
  • Hér ádranc Ǽdwine æðeling (

    son of Edward

    ),
      933; P. 107, 4.
  • Se æðeling Eádmund (

    Edmund Ironside

    ),
      1015; P. 146, 13.
  • Se cyng (

    Ethelred) sende Ælfún ƀ mid þám æþelinge (-um, v. l. )

    Eádwarde and Ælfréde ofer sé,
      1013; P. 144, 15.
  • Hé gean Ælfriðæ ðæs cyningæs wífæ ðæs landæs ... and ðám yldran æðælingæ, ðæs cyngæs suna and hiræ, ... ánæs swurdæs,

      C. D. iii. 127, 25.
  • Wǽron þá æþelingas befæste Egcbrihte cynge ... wæs se cyng heora fæderan sunu,

      Eorcenbrihtes, Lch. iii. 424, 11.
  • Þá eðelingas Æðelfriðes (

    K. of Northumbria

    ) suna,
      Chr. 617; P. 24, 29. Ia. of
    f
a prince, noble other than English
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  • Wilnade sum æðeling tó rícsianne ... Falores (

    Phalaris

    ) wæs háten,
      Ors. 1, 12; S. 54, 16.
  • Alcibiades se æðeling,

      Bt. 32, 2; F. 116, 19.
  • Odda (

    the emperors nephew

    ) wæs Leódulfes sunu æþelinges,
      Chr. 982; P. 124, 31.
  • Be sumum Rómániscum æðelinge se wæs háten Liberias (

    the Latin is:

    liberum quendam virum),
      Bt. 16, 2; F. 52, 19.
  • Twégen æþelingas

    duo regii juvenes,

      Ors. 1, 10; S. 44, 24.
used of Christ
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  • Ácende Maria þone heofonlican æðeling,

      Hml. Th. i. 356, 9.
  • Þæt se ælmihtiga cyning sceolde besceófan tó cwale his áncennedan æðeling, ii. 6, 21.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ediling nobilis.]
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