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F

At the end of syllables, and between two vowels, the Anglo-Saxon f is occasionally represented by u, the present English v; it is, therefore, probable that the Anglo-Saxon f in this position had the sound of our present v, as Luu, luf = lufu love; fíf five; hæuþ, hæfþ haveth; Euen, efen even. In the beginning of Anglo-Saxon words, f had the sound of the English f, as Fíf five, finger finger, finn fin, fisc fish . The Rune ᚠ not only stands for the letter f, but for Feoh, which, in Anglo-Saxon, signifies money, wealth. v. feoh IV and RÚN

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At the end of syllables, and between two vowels, the Anglo-Saxon f is occasionally represented by u, the present English v; it is, therefore, probable that the Anglo-Saxon f in this position had the sound of our present v, as Luu, luf = lufu love; fíf

béd-ríp

(n.)
Grammar
béd-ríp, l. bed-ríp, es; n. , and add
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D. bed-rip: Andrews' Old English Manor. P. 159.]

wanan-beám

(n.)
Grammar
wanan-beám, es; m.
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English Plant Names. E. E. T. S. Pub., and cf; O. H. Ger. spinnel-boum fusarius) Wananbeám (uuanan-, uuonan-) fusarius, Txts. 65, 935 : Wrt. Voc. ii. 39, 5. Wanabeám fus*-*sarius, 36, 58 : fursarius, 1. 286, 3

Linked entry: wana-beám

part

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Wé ne magon þisne part fullíce trahtnian on Engliscum gereorde, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 240, 16. Add

ge-þeódnes

(n.)
Grammar
ge-þeódnes, -ness, -nyss, e; f. [ge, þeódnes, -nys a joining] .

a joiningjuncturejointjunctiojuncturacompages

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Gr. 24; Som. 24, 19-23. a translation Ðeáh ða scearpþanclan witan ðisse engliscan geþeódnesse ne behófien though the acute wise men need not this English translation, Lchdm. iii. 440, 32

Linked entry: ge-fégincg

tíþian

(v.)
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Add Ðú bǽde mé ꝥ ic sceolde þé áwendan of Lédene on Englisc þá bóc Genesis. Þá þúhte mé hefigtýme þé tó tíþienne þæs, Ælfc. Gen. Thw. 1, 6. Add Se rihtwísa gemildsaþ and tíþað ( tribuet), Ps. L. 32, 17.

Denisc

(adj.)
Grammar
Denisc, def; se Denisca; adj.

DANISH Dānĭcus

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DANISH; Dānĭcus Gif man ofslagen weorþe, ealle we lǽtaþ efen dýrne, Engliscne and Deniscne if a man he slain, we estimate all equally dear, English and Danish, L. A. G. 2: Th. i. 154, i.

Linked entry: Deniscan

heoru

(n.)
Grammar
heoru, heoro, hioro; m.

A sword

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The word is a poetical one both in English and Icelandic, and in these dialects, as in Old Saxon, is mostly used in compounds

Linked entries: heoro hioro

Ælfréd

(n.)
Grammar
Ælfréd, es; m. [ælf an elf; réd = rǽd counsel, wise in counsel: v. Ælfred]

AlfredAlfrédusAlfred the Great

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D. 990, — 'Historia Anglorum' ða ðe Ælfréd cyning of Lédene on Englisc awende Historia Anglorum, which king Alfred turned from Latin into English, Homl. Th. ii. 116, 30-118, 1. The third book which Alfred translated, about A.

wrǽc

(n.)
Grammar
wrǽc, e; f.

Vengeance

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This form seems to be implied by later English forms, e. g.

á-solcennys

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is ásolcennyss oþþe slǽwð on Accidia Englisc, Hml. S. 16, 296. Hí ne wandiað tó licgenne on stuntnysse heora ásolcennysse, Hml. Th. ii. 554, 3.

gríg

(n.)
Grammar
gríg, (?), gregg
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For similar correspondence between Icelandic and English forms cf. Icel. hey; W. S. híg; hegg(e) in Rushworth Gloss. Mk. 6, 39.] See next word

Linked entry: gregg

fadung

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Ꝥ Léden and ꝥ Englisc nabbaþ ná áne wísan on þǽre sprǽce fadunge (fandunge, MS.), Ælfc. Gen. Thw. 4, 8. Þæt is gedón be Godes fadunge, Hml. Th. i. 518, 31: Hml. S. 23, 257: Hex. 40, 26. Add

ge-menged

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Sum cyn is gecweden epicena, þæt is on Léden promiscua and on Englisc gemenged hic corvus ðes hremn swá hwíeðer swá hit byð swá hé, swá heó, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 19, II

pollegie

(n.)
Grammar
pollegie, polleie, an; f.
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Pollege, ðæt on englis dwyrcge dwosle, i. 380, 10. Genim polleian, 118, 4 : ii. 318, 7. Genim pollegian, 138, 26: iii. 4, 9 : 16, 10. Pollegan, 28, 26: 48, 9

hafenian

(v.)
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Ger. hebinóa tractare, inthepinót pin sustentor, but in later English heven means to raise, a sense which would suit the passages. v. N. E. D. heven (where is quoted Noe hiuened up an auter, Allit. Pms. 53, 506)

sceaþan

(v.)
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The form corresponding to the Gothic is sceþþan with a strong past tense, but in English a new infinitive sceaþan seems to be developed to suit the strong conjunction, and a new weak past tense to suit the infinitive sceþþan.

-estre

(suffix)
Grammar
-estre, -istre, -ystre, an; f. are the feminine terminations of nouns of action, same as the Latin -ix and English -ess; as Fiðelestre a female fiddler. Wrt. Voc. 73, 62: hleápestre a female dancer, 73, 71: lǽrestre an instructress: myltestre meretrix vel scortum, Wrt. Voc. 86, 72: rǽdistre a female reader, Wrt. Voc. 72, 7: sangestre [MS. sangystre] a songstress, Wrt. Voc. 72, 5: seámestre

a seamstress

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a seamstress, 74, 13

Linked entries: -istre berþ-estre

morgen-sprǽc

(n.)
Grammar
morgen-sprǽc, e; f.

The periodical assembly of a guild held in the morning, or on the morrow after the guild-feast

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English Guilds, p. 30, where a meeting is held 'on morwe aftyr þe gylde day.']

mamorian

(v.)
Grammar
mamorian, mamrian

to be deep in thought about anything

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[Somner gives mamerung dormitio, dormitatio : cf. later English mammering He sits now in a mammering, As one that minds it not. Halliw. Dict. q