Frum-bearn

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

frum-bearn

Add: (1) a first-born child, the eldest child:--His wíf sunu on woruld bróhte, se eafora wæs Enoc háten, freólic frumbearn, Gen. 1189: 1056. Þám yldestan eaforan, frumbearne, 1215. Hé slóh ǽghwylc frumbearn percussit omne primogenitum, Ps. Th. 104, 31. Frumbearna gehwylc, 77, 51: Exod. 38. Æðele frumbearn primogenita, 134, 8. ¶ figurative:--Banan mancynnes fácnes frumbearn (the devil), An. 1296. (2) one of the first two or three children, an elder child:--Adames and Euan aforan wǽron freólicu twá frumbearn cenned, Cain and Abel, Gen. 968. Þá yldestan Chus and Cham hátene wǽron, frumbearn Chames, 1618. frum-bearn