Ge-mæcca

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

ge-mæcca

Take here ge-mecca in Dict. , and add: I. an equal, a like, fellow :-- Fædor gimacca (but see ge-maca; I. I) Patris compar, Rtl. 164, 3. Þonne hí gegadriaþ þá gelícan tó heora gemæccum in þám gelícum tintregum, and þá oferhýdigan mid þám oferhígdum . . . cum pares paribus in tormentis similibus sociant, ut superbi cum superbis . . . , Gr. D. 316, 4. II. a match, one suited to another, adoptata sibi coaetanea virgine, Guth. Gr. 104, 7. III. a married (or betrothed) person. (1) of a man or woman :-- Gemæcga conjunx, Wrt. Voc. i. 50, 8. (2) of a woman :-- His fæder wæs on hǽítenscipe wunigende, and his gemæcca samod, Hml. Th. ii. 498, 26 : Hml. S. 3, 470. Ic eom Arcestrate þín gemæcca, Ap. Th. 25, 8. Ic bæd his dohtor mé tó gemæccan, be þáre ic mæg secgan ꝥ heó his ágen gemæcca wǽre, 9, 3-5. For hwan nelt þú (Joachim) hám gehweorfan tó þínum gemæccan ?, Hml. A. 122, 165. Nelle þú ondrǽdan Marian þíne gemæccan (conjugem) tó onfónne, Mt. i. 20. God him swylce gemæccean forgeaf, Chr. 1067; P. 201, 33. Þ UNCERTAIN ic móte þíne þeówene míne gemeccan geseón, Hml. S. 30, 237. Hí him tó nimað mægeð tó gemæccum mínra feónda, Gen. 1259. III a. in pl. man and wife :-- Gemæccan conjuges, Wrt. Voc. ii. 52, 33. Tú beóð gemæccan, Gn. Ex. 23. v. efen-, riht-gemæcca. ge-mæcca

Mots connexes: ge-mæc :-- Gyrnde hé him his gemæccan tó nymanne