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ge-deorfan

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Substitute:
to labour, do hard work
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  • Oxanhyrde, hwæt wyrcst þú ? Eálá, hláford mín, micel ic gedeorfe

    (laboro), Coll.

    • M. 20, 25.
to perish, be destroyed, be wrecked (lit. or fig.),
of a person
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  • Gedurfan

    naufragauerunt (duae faeminae a fide),

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 85, 60: 60, 68.

  • Ðá hí oninnan þǽm sǽfærelde wǽron, þá gedu[r]fon (a letter is erased before the f) hí ealle and ádruncen

    obruta est et interfecta universa Aegypti multitude,

    • Ors. 7;
    • S. 38, 33.

  • Heora scipa gedearf ( erased; gedraf, v.l.) cc and xxx

    Romana classis infando nanfragio eversa est; nom de trecentis navibus ducentae et viginti perierunt,

    • 4, 6;
    • S. 176, 19.

  • Hiora scipa gedurfon L and C

    centunt quinquaginta naves onerarias perdiderunt,

    28.
Etymology
[
Ha beon þurh me idoruen,
  • Marh. 16,
He was idoruen in alle his oðre wittes,
  • A. R. 106.
Þu bodest cwalm of orve oþer þat londfolc wurþ idorve,
  • O. and N. 1158.
]
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v. ge-dirfan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-deorfan.” 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/47637.

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