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the domestics of a household
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  • Þá híwan

    familiares domus illius,

    • Bd. 3, 9
      • ;
    • Sch. 231, 15
      • .

  • Ðá cóm sum þára hína, cleopode mec,

    • 5, 3
      • ;
    • Sch. 565, 12
      • .

  • Twégen æceras on gemang hína lande

    (land let to the members of a household?),

    • C. D. iii. 400, 7
      • .

  • Hína herdlandes,

    • 399, 30
      • .

  • Hína gemǽre

    boundary of land held by the híwan (?),

    • 24.

  • Gif mon his heówum in fæsten flǽsc gefe,

    • Ll. Th. i. 46, 9
      • .

  • Hí áxodon æt þám híwum hwæðer Petrus ðǽr wununge hæfde,

    • Hml. S. 10, 111.
Hí(g)na ealdor
the head of a household:
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  • Gemétte hé þǽr fǽmnan wæs nift þæs hína ealdres

    (patris familias),

    • Bd. 3, 9
      • ;
    • Sch. 231, 11
      • .

  • Wæs sum híwscypes fæder and hína ealdor

    erat pater familias,

    • 5, 12
      • ;
    • Sch. 612, 18
      • .
a king's household
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  • Se cyning ne his híwan (híred, v. l.

    domestici eius),

    • Bd. 3, 14
      • ;
    • Sch. 260, 1
      • .

  • Him

    (the king)

    and his híwum

    sibi suisque,

    • 3, 28
      • ;
    • Sch. 323, 16
      • .
the members of a religious house
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  • Ceólréd abbud and ðá hígan on Medeshámstede,

    • C. D. ii. 46, 15.

  • Ðis syndan ðæs londes gemǽru ðe hígen biscope gesald habbað. Ǽrest of Sæuerne be hígna gemǽre,

    • iii. 463, 13.

  • Mid ærcebiscopes geðeahte and ðára hióna et Crístes cirican,

    • i. 299, 14.

  • Ic Werferð biscop mid míra hígna leáfe,

    • ii. 132, 9.

  • Ðem hiium tó Crístes cirican,

    • i. 299, 35.
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v. riht-híwa.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “híwan.” 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/52597.

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