un-fyrn
- adverb
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Weorþodan wé nú unfyrn for tén nihtum ðone symbeldæg foran tó ðyssum ondweardan dæge
not long ago now, ten days from to-day, we celebrated the festival,
- Blickl. Homl. 131, 9.
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Secgas míne gearwe sindon; ða ðé unfyrn faca feorh ætþringan,
- Andr. Kmbl. 2741; An. 1373.
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Nú ic fundige tó ðé of ðisse worulde; nú ic wát ðæt ic sceal ful unfyr[n] faca,
- Exon. 454, 32; Hy. 4, 42.
- [Cf. Icel. ú-forn not old.] Cf. un-gefyrn,-geára.