Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

ge-feallan

  • verb
Dictionary links
Add:
intrans.
to fall from a higher to a lower position
Show examples

  • Ofer þæne þe hé gefylþ

    super quem ceciderit,

    • An. Ox. 61, 28.

  • Þá tó heofenum ástígað, nyðer gefeallað under neowulne grund (

    descendant usque ad abyssos

    ),
    • Ps. Th. 106, 25: Cri. 1532.

  • Hié hine forlétan and hé gefeól on þone stocc,

    • Bl. H. 189, 12.

  • Gefeáll regn

    descendit pluvia,

    • Mt. L. 7, 25.

  • Ealle þá yldestan witan gefeóllan of ánre úpflóran, bútan se hálga Dúnstán ána ætstód uppon ánum beáme,

    • Chr. 978;
    • P. 123, 2.

  • Se heoton biþ gefeallen æt þǽm feówer endum middangeardes,

    • Bl. H. 93, 5.

  • Gefeallen snáw,

    • Ps. Th. 148, 8.
to fall from an erect position,
of living things
Show examples

  • Áslád and gefióll

    labat,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 50, 62.

  • Gefeoll

    procumberet,

    • 66, 9.

  • Hé gefeáll onufa suira his,

    • Lk. L. 15, 20.

  • Gefeól se ríca on his reste middan,

    • Jud. 67.

  • Hé gefeóll tó foldan,

    • 280.
to stumble, fall into or over :--
Show examples

  • Éghuoelc sé ðe gefalleð onufa ðæm stáne,

    • Lk. L. R. 20, 18.

  • Gif gefallas scíp in seáð,

    • Mt. L. 12, 11.

  • Hí on ðone seáð gefeóllan,

    • Ps. Th. 56, 8.
to fall in reverence :--
Show examples

  • Ꝥ wif forhtade ... and gifeól (gefeall, L.) bifora him,

    • Mk. R. 5, 33.

  • Ꝥ wíf gífeóll bifora fótum his,

    • Lk. R. 8, 47.

  • Hé gifeóll on onsióne,

    • 17, 16.
to fall dead or wounded, fall in battle :--
Show examples

  • Gefallas hiá in múðe suordes,

    • Lk. L. 21, 24.

  • Micel wæl gefeól,

    • Chr. 943;
    • P. 111, 12: 1004;
    • P. 135, 36.

  • Þǽr on greót gefeóll se hýhsta dǽl,

    • Jud. 308.

  • Hwæt wæs on manríme ... dareðlácendra deádra gefeallen,

    • El. 651.
of material objects, buildings, c.
Show examples

  • Þonne gefeallaþ ealle deófolgyld,

    • Bl. H. 93, 16.

  • Þæt hús nó gefeóll (-feáll,

    • L.),
    • Mt. R. 7, 25, 27: Lk. L. 6, 49.
to fall,
of persons, to perish, be ruined
Show examples

  • Se líchoma lǽne gedreóseð, fǽge gefealleð,

    • B. 1755.

  • Gé sweltað ..., swá ealdormann án gefealleð

    vos moriemini ..., sicut unus de principibus cadetis,

    • Ps. Th. 81, 7.

  • Leáf féalewiað, feallað on eorðan, ... swá gefeallað þá þe firena lǽstað,

    • Sal. 315.
of things, to decline, decay, fail
Show examples

  • Mycel yfel weaxeþ on þínum ríce, gif þú lǽtest leng þysne drý ríxian, ... and þín ríce for his lárum gefealleþ,

    • Bl. H. 181, 34.

  • Eáðor is ... ðon án merce gefalla,

    • Lk. L. 16, 17.
to fall to doing something, to fall a-doing, busy one's self at something, apply with energy to
Show examples

  • Hé ofdúne ástáh and gefeóll on þæs ceorles clyppinge

    concitus descendit, atque in ejusdem rustici amplexum ruit,

    • Gr. D. 47, 1
    • [: Ap. Th. 16, 23.
    v. Dict.].
of that which (violently) affects the mind
Show examples

  • Ondo gefeóll (gifeól, R.) ofer hine

    timor irruit super eum,

    • Lk. L. 1, 12.

  • Hé fond his mondryhten ádlwérigne; him þæt in gefeól hefig æt heortan,

    • Gú. 981.
trans.
to reach by falling, to fall and reach, fall to
Show examples

  • Hé meregrund gefeóll,

    • B. 2100.

  • Hé hreás on hrúsan ... hé eorðan gefeóll,

    • 2834
    .

  • Lagu land gefeól (

    of the water of the Red Sea when it fell upon the Egyptians trying to follow in the track of the Israelites

    ),
    • Exod. 482: 491.
to cause by falling
Show examples

  • Hit is on leóðum gesungen hwelcne demm hie Rómánum gefeóllan (

    quantam reipublicae orbitatem occasu suo intulerit Fabiorum familia

    ),
    • Ors. 2, 4;
    • S. 72, 11.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. gi-fallan.
]
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-feallan.” 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/47902.

Checked: 1
Full form

Word-wheel

  • ge-feallan, v.

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.