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to wrap up, roll up
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  • Ðæt yfelwillende mód gefielt hit self twyfeald oninnan him selfum, and sió twyfealdnes ðæs yflan willan hiene selfne twyfealdne gefielt oninnan him selfum

    malitiosae mentis duplicitas sese intra se colligit,

    • Past. 242, 6-9.

  • Hé gefielt his mód mid wóre twiefealdnesse

    ad semetipsa duplicitatis perversitate corda replicuntur,

    • 245, 15.

  • Án clíwen suíðe nearwe gefealden (

    involutum

    ),
    • 241, 24.

  • Gefalden bóc

    volumen,

    • Mt. p. 1, 7.

  • Ne bið gifalden

    non flectetur,

    • Rtl. 84, 53.
to involve, implicate :--
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  • Nǽnig man compigende Gode gifalde hine (inplicat se ) gimótum woruldlicum,

    • Rtl. 60, 11.
to roll about
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  • Hé gefeald hine

    uolutabatur,

    • Mk. R. 9, 20.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. ge-faldan complicare, convolvere.
]
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Cf. ge-fildan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-fealdan.” 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/47898.

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