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ge-fá

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
ge-fá, [ = ge-faa], án; m. [fáh a foe]
Wright's OE grammar
§402;
A foe, an enemy; inimicus, adversarius
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  • Gif se man [MS. mon] his gefán wite

    if the man know his foe,

    • L. Alf. pol, 42; Th. i. 90, 2, 4, 14
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  • Ðá métte hine his eald-gefána sum, and hine ofstang

    then one of his old foes met him, and stabbed [killed] him,

    • Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 62, 22
    • .
  • To bismere his gefán [MS. gefaan = gefáu = gefáum = gefáhum]

    in mockery to his foes,

    • Homl. Th. i. 226, 28
    • .
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v. fáh, .
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v.  -fá.
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