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ge-treów

  • adjective
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ge-treów, ; adj. [Besides this unmutated a-stem, a mutated ja-stem (ió, ié, í, ý) and a mixed form ge-treówe occur: the eó-forms are taken here, the mutated forms under ge-tríwe.]
true, trustworthy, honest.
of persons
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  • Getreów gesíþa,

    fida comes,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 148, 73.

  • Hwá wénstu ðæt sié tó ðǽm getreów (

    fidelis

    ) brytnere?,
      Past. 459, 11.

  • Getreówe,

      Hml. A. 55, 124.

  • Getreówe (

    fidelis

    ) on eallum wordum his,
      Ps. L. 144, 13.

  • Gif hé him getreówe ne sý

    if one party is not trusted by the other,

      Ll. Lbmn. 37, 25.

  • Se getreówa man sceal syllan his gód on þá tíd þe hine sylfne sélest lyste his brúcan,

      Bl. H. 101, 19.

  • Ðæs getreówan freóndes,

      Bt. 24, 3; F. 82, 34.

  • Ǽlc freó man hæbbe getreówne borh,

      Ll. Th. i. 280, 7.

  • Gif þegen hæbbe getreówne man tó foráðe for hine,

      388, 16.

  • Getreówe friénd,

      Bt. 20; F. 72, 24.

  • Þa getreówan freónd,

      24, 3; F. 82, 27.

  • Þínra getreówra freónda,

      20; F. 72, 14.

  • Nime se hláford twégen getreówe þegenas,

      Ll. Th. i. 280, 12.
  • Getreówe borgas, 21.

  • Nimað hí heora men mid him, and lǽtaþ þíne feáwan getreówan mid þé,

      Bt. 20; F. 72, 17.

  • Þá Dænescan þe wæs ǽrur geteald eallra folca getreowast,

      Chr. 1086; P. 221, 29.

  • Tó ðǽm getreówestan mundboran,

      Bl. H. 201, 27.
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  • Mid fulre gewitnesse and getreówre,

      Ll. Th. i. 240, 9.

  • Getreówum fidis (discipulus

    fidis

    devotus passibus,
      Ald. 150, 32), Wrt. Voc. ii. 90, 75.
true to a person,
loyal, faithful
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  • Dauid ymb his getreówne ðegn sierede

    David devotum militem extinxit,

      Past. 37, 8: 393, 8.

  • Uton beón á úrum hláforde holde and getreówe,

      Ll. Th. i. 373, 8.

  • Þá þe þám cynge getreówe wǽron and eallum his folce,

      Chr. 1052; P. 182, 4.

  • Syndon feáwa þe þǽm deádan getreówe weorþon,

      Bl. H. 53, 2.

  • Hié ne beóþ nánum men getreówe,

      Bt. 7, 1; F. 16, 17. [O. H. Ger. ge-triu.
    ]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-treów.” 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/50259.

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