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ge-búr

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ge-búr, ge-býr.
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glossing Latin words
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  • Gibuur

    colonus, vicinus,

      Txts. 46, 163.

  • Gebúr

    colonus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 288, 32.
  • Gebýr, ii. 17, 6.
used of others than English
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  • Ic wæs gebúr on þám lande þe [hátte] Nisibim,

      Shrn. 36, 21.

  • Hit gelamp in Samni ꝥ sumes ríces mannes tún wæs, in ðám his gebúr (

    colonus

    ) hæfde sunu,
      Gr. D. 11, 4.

  • Níwum gebúrum

    rudibus (florulentae telluris) colonis,

      An. Ox. 11, 87.
as a technical English term it has much the same meaning as
villein, v. Seebohm, Vill. Comm. s.v.
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  • Se gebúr sceal his riht dón (

    then follows an account of what the gebúr was bound to do ),

      C.D. iii. 450, 34.
  • Dudda wæs gebúr into Hǽðfeldan, vi. 211, 28.

  • Bráda hátte wæs gebúr tó Hǽðfelda, and Hwíte hátte ðæs Brádan wíf, wæs gebúres dohtor tó Hǽðfelda,

      212, 15-17.
  • Cynelm hátte Cénwaldes fæder, wæs gebúr intó Hæðfelda, and Manna hátte Cénwaldes sunu, sit æt Wádtúne under Eádwolde, 26.

  • An hió ðám híwum ðára gebúra ðe on ðám gafollande sittað, and ðéra þeówra manna hió an Eádgyfe,

      132, 30.
Etymology
[O.H. Ger. ge-búr, -búro municeps, incola, vicinus, civis, rusticus.]
Similar entries
v. tún-gebúr; á-búrod.
Linked entries
v.  ge-býr.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-búr.” 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/47374.

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