Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-mecca

Part of speech: an; Related words: ge-mæcca. ge-mecca

Definitions

1 definitions

1 ge-mecca

m. and f. A consort, an equal :-- Ic Oswulf aldormonn ond Beorndryþ mín gemecca I Oswulf alderman and Beornthryth my wife, Th. Dipl. 459, 3 : 469, 30. Gemecca conjunx, Ælfc. Gl. 3; Wrt. Voc. 72, 9. Clippende to heora gemeccum clamantes coæqualibus, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 11, 16.

Similar Words

-gal
-gale (-a)
-galness
-gangendlic
-gealla

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛗᛖᚳᚳᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Mt.: Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.: Ælfric

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