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fíf

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Wright's OE grammar
§5; §41; §50; §97; §147; §213; §237; §283; §295; §447;
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adjectival.
uninflected
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  • Fíf géra fæc

    quinquennium,

    • An. Ox. 3035
    • :
    • B. 545
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  • Nam hé fíf stánas,

    • Bl. H. 31, 17.
with pronoun or indefinite numeral:
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  • Þá fíf dysegan,

    • Mt. 25, 3.
  • Wé onféngon þá hálgan fíf seonoþas,

    • Bd. 4, 17
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    • Sch. 433, 5.
as part of an ordinal:
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  • Þisne fíf and twéntigoðan sealm,

    • Ps. Th. 25, arg.
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    • 35, arg
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inflected
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  • Fífo ídlo

    quinque fatuae,

    • Mt. L. 25, 3
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  • Stearas fífe (fífo, L.) cómun

    quinque passeres ueniunt,

    • Lk. R. 12, 6
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  • Mónoðas fífe,

    • 1, 24
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  • Fífo cræftas,

    • Mt. L. 25, 15
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    • Jn. L. R. 4, 18
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  • Cuuhorn bið twégea pæninga wurð. Oxan tægl bið sciłł. weorð; cuus bið fífa [peninga],

    • Ll. Th. i. 140, 3
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  • Weorc crístes mǽl fífo,

    • Lch. iii. 56, 8.
with pronoun or indefinite numeral adjective:
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  • Þá fífe dysige,

    • Mt. R. 25, 3.
  • Of ðǽm hláfum fífum,

    • Jn. L. 6, 26
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  • Sé ðe þá fíf pund underféng gestrýnde óðre fífe (fífo, L., féfe, R.),

    • Mt. 25, 16, 20
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substantival.
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  • Ealle þá syndon ágangen buton þǽm ánum . . . fífe þára syndon ágongen,

    • Bl. H. 117, 36
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  • Fífe (fífo, L.) þáræ wérun dysige and fífe snottre,

    • Mt. R. 25, 2.
  • Fífum

    lustris,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 92, 41
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  • Nime fífe and beó him sylfa syxta,

    • Ll. Th. i. 394, 5.
in a series a member whose number is five or a multiple of five:
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  • Hú mon scule blódlǽse on þára six fífa ǽlcum on mónðe forgán,

    • Lch. ii. 146, 19
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    • 148, 2
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uninflected and with a multiple of ten where the number is treated
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  • On þǽm geáre bið þreó hund daga and fíf and syxtig daga,

    • Bl. H. 35, 22
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  • Þǽr on ríme forborn fíf and hundseofontig hǽðnes herges,

    • Jul. 588
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as plural
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  • Gif þǽr beóð fíf and feówertig rihtwísra,

    • Gen. 18, 28
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