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ge-férness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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ge-férness, (?), e; f.
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  • For þon þe mycelre tíde ǽr þǽre hálignesse hús geclǽnsod beón sceolde and seó gastlíþnes þæs Crístes wícsceáweres and seó gifernes gebúend wæs þæs Crístes engles and seó heall þæs hálgan gástes

    mundabatur enim longo tempore sacrificii domus, sanctitatis hospitium, metatum (meatum, v. 1. ) metatoris Christi, angeli domicilium

    • (v. Archiv cxxii, p. 248),
    • Bl. H. 163, 10-13.
  • The original is so imperfectly reproduced by the translation, that it is difficult to connect the several corresponding parts, and to understand what the translation means. To hospitium corresponds (though it does not properly translate it)

    gasílíþnes

    ; perhaps to meatum (not metatum) corresponds

    gifernes = (?) ge-férnes.

    Though ge-férnes does not occur elsewhere, yet on the analogy of ge-leórnes transitus, ge-leóran transire, it might serve as a gloss to meatus alongside

    ge-féran

    meare.

    Gi- for ge- is not used in
    • Bl. H.
    , but gy- occurs once, in

    gy-fylnes

    ,
    • 145, 16.
    • Mr. Bradley
    suggests the emendation

    seó gisternes gebúennes

    as translating

    domicilium

    .
    • Dr. Max Fórster
    suggests

    gife(n)nes

    • v. Archiv cxxii, p. 248.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-férness.” 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/47943.

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