Ge-deorf

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-deorf

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 ge-deorf

n. Labour, trouble, tribulation; lăbor, trībŭlātio :-- Micel gedeorf ys hit magnus lăbor est, Coll. Monast. Th. 20, 5, 7. Byþ mycel gedeorf ĕrit trībŭlātio magna, Mt. Bos. 24, 21. Hæfst ðú ǽnig gedeorf hăbestu ălĭquem lăbōrem? Coll. Monast. Th. 20, 9. For his micclum gedeorfum for his great labours, Homl. Th. ii. 522, 3 : 82, 33. ge-deorf

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ᚷᛖ-ᛞᛇᚱᚠ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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