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ge-dryhtu

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Wright's OE grammar
§391;
Substitute : ge-dryht, e; f. [es; n. ?]; pl. ge-dryhtu What is suffered, fortune, fate (cf. dreógan)
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  • Gedrihtu elementa, i. fortune ł sidera (the passage is: Cum figura mundi in ictu evanuerit, et enormia creaturarum

    elementa

    in melius commntata claruerint,
      Ald. 32, 34.
  • For sidera as an alternative to elementa, cf. elementa sol et luna et reliqui planetae, Migne. Gedrihtu seems a rendering of fortune, cf.

    fortunę,

    gewyrdes, 2628),
      An. Ox. 2371: 7, 145.
  • Gedryhtu,

      8, 119: Angl. xiii. 32, 110.
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  • ge-dryhtu, n.