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fóster-módor

  • noun [ feminine ]
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fóster-módor, -móder, fóstor-módor, féster-módor, -módur, fǽster-módor; f.
A FOSTER-MOTHER, nurse; altrix, nutrix
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  • Hwæðer hit oncneówe his fóstermódor

    whether it knew its foster-mother,

    • Bt. 3, 1
    • ;
    • Fox 4, 30.
  • Fóstermóder altrix vel

    nutrix,

    • Wrt. Voc. 72, 38.
  • Ic gean mínre fósterméder ðæs landes æt Westúne

    I give to my mother the land at Weston,

    • Th. Diplm. 560, 25.
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  • fóster-módor, n.