Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

hám-fæst

  • adjective
Dictionary links
Grammar
hám-fæst, adj.
Resident, dwelling at home
Show examples

  • Hú mæg ðǽr ðonne ánes ríces monnes nama cuman ðonne ðǽr mon furðum ðære burge naman ne geheórþ ne ðære þeóde ðe he on hámfæst biþ

    how can one great man's name come there, when the name of the town even and of the people among whom he dwells is not heard there,

      Bt. 18, 2; Fox 64, 3: L. Ed. 1; Th. i. 158, 22.

  • Gif mon becume on his gefán and hé hine ǽr hámfæstne ne wite

    si quis superveniat in hostem suum, et eum antea residentem nesciat,

      L. Alf. pol. 42; Th. i. 90, 15.
Etymology
[Cf. hám-sittende.]
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “hám-fæst.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/18090.

Checked: 0
Full form

Word-wheel

  • hám-fæst, adj.

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.