Ge-gada

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-gada

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: gædeling. ge-gada

Definitions

1 ge-gada

A fellow-traveller, a companion, associate; comes, complex, conspirans, Ælfc. Gl. 86; Sons. 74, 27, 28. He feóll ðá adún and ealle his gegadan into helle wíte he fell down then and all his companions into hell torment, Swt. A. S. Rdr. 59, 93, 87. Afeóll se deófoll mid his gegadum the devil fell with his companions, Hexam. 10; Norm. 16, 18.

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚷᚪᛞᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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