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láf, <b>. I.</b>
Wright's OE grammar
§367; §562;
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what is left, a remainder
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  • Éce láf (v. éce ;
I.),
    Exod. 370.
Láfa, belíuendras superstites, i. uiui, An. Ox. 3313. ¶ in the phrase tó láfe
as remainder, remaining, left
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  • Þrý dagas nú tó láfe syndan,

      Bl. H. 231, 14.
  • Hwæt is heora nú tó láfe bútan se lytla hlísa and se nama mid feáum stafum áwriten ?

    signat superstes fama tenuis pauculis inane nomen litteris

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      Bt. 19; F. 70, 10.
  • Þá gebróðru út fóron, and hé sylf on þám mynstre tó láfe wearð,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 651.
  • Wæs se mǽsta mancwealm . . . swá þæt heora feáwa tó láfe wurdon

    pestes pene usque ad desolationem exaestuaverunt

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      Ors. 1, 6; S. 36, 16.
  • Án of him tó láfe ne wunode

    unus ex eis non remansit

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      Ps. Vos. 105, 11.
  • Ic ǽnlípigu on þám cafertúne tó lǽfe oþstód, Hml. S. 23 b, 410. (1 a)

    what is left of something :-- Hí námon þára hláfa and fixa láfe (ðá hláfo (láfe, R.) ðára screádunga, L. reliquias fragmentorum), Mk. 6, 43, (1 b) what is left by something (gen. )

    :-- Þú miht hér geseón moldan dǽl and wyrmes láfe,
      Bl. H. 113, 20.
  • Wearð se mǽsta dǽl mid hungre ádýd, and þá láfe ðæs hungres ofslóh se here,

      Hml. Th. i. 404, 11.
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  • Him féla láf (

    used with collective force and taking verb in plural?

    ) ne meahton sceððan,
      B. 1032.
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  • Þǽr Alexandres láf wæs and his sunu,

      Ors. 3, 11; S. 148, 31.
  • Of wífe ł hláfe seofa bróðra

    de uxore septem fratrum

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      Mt. p. 19, 6.
  • Ꝥte lǽda bróðer his láf tó wíf þæs

    ut ducat frater ejus uxorem illius

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      Mt. L. 22, 24.
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v. beód-láf, fird-láf, mete-láf.
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