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-metod

  • suffix
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-metod, [In the phrase se metoda drihten, metoda is not a gen. pl., as suggested in Dict., but either a wk. noun or adjective, as will be seen from the following examples
Wright's OE grammar
§92; §221; §341;
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  • Micel mildheortnys þæs metodan Dryhtnes,

      Hml. Th. ii. 316, 21.
  • Menigfealde beóð þæs metodan Drihtnes egsan and swingla ofer scyldigum mannum, 328, 32

    (both passages are alliterative).] Add:

    :-- Se metod eallra gesceafta (cf. se milda metod.
      Met. 29, 68)
    fét on eorþan ealle grówende westmas, Bt. 39,13; F. 234, 18.
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  • -metod, suffix