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heáfod-hebba

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
heáfod-hebba, an ; m.
of a person,
an author, originator. Cf. heáfod;
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  • Ðá bisceopas swíðost ǽlces gedweldes tiledon, and ǽlc gedwyld hí upp árǽrdon. Twégen ðǽr wǽron bisceophádes men þe ǽlces yfeles heáfodhebban wǽron,

      Hml. S. 23, 365.
of a thing,
a beginning
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  • Ǽrest wé wyllað fón on Ianuarium, for þon hé is heáfodhebba and eác þás geáres geendung,

      Angl. viii. 305, 29.
Etymology
[Cf. O. H. Ger. ur-hap causa, fermentum: Ger. ur-heber originator.]
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v.  hebba.
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  • heáfod-hebba, n.