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leóf

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Wright's OE grammar
§137; §173; §208; §209; §218; §235; §276; §294; §426; §443; §444; §620;
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as adj.
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  • Leóf carus, þurhlád

    odiosus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 28, 65.
of persons
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  • Leófre

    optatę (generationis),

      An. Ox. 3369.
  • Leó(fe) dulcia (natorum pignora), 220. (1 a) as an epithet in address; see preceding word :-- Leófan men, Wlfst. 6, 2 (

    and often).

    Men þá leófestan
      232, 12.
of things
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  • Mid leófre férrǽdene

    contuberniali sodalitate,

      An. Ox. 2353.
  • Ðé is leófre on ðisum wácum scræfum ðonne ðú on healle heálic biscop sitte,

      Hml. Th. ii. 146, 27.
  • Biþ hit swá him leófost bið,

      Lch. ii. 144, 23: By. 23.
  • Mé is eal leófast þæt þé láþost is,

      Ors. 5, 12; S. 242, 9.
as subst.
of persons, a dear one, friend, leman (v.
N. E. D. lief, 3b)
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  • Ne biþ hé Godes leóf, Bl. H. 21, 35, Leóf

    succubam,

      Germ. 394, 192.
of things
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  • Leóf áláþað

    amor abolescit,

      Angl. ii. 374, 3.
  • Nán wiht ne þæs leófes ne þæs láðes,

      Wlfst. 185, 1.
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v. efen-leóf, ge-leóf, híred-leóf (?).
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