Heáfod-gemaca

Old English Dictionary Entry

Heáfod-gemaca

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -gemæcca, an; Related words:

Definitions

1 heáfod-gemaca

m. An equal, a mate, fellow :-- Ða sylfan his heáfodgemacan hé forlét his very fellows he forsook, Guthl. 2; Gdwin. 16, 16. Ic mæg sleán míne heáfodgemæccan [heáfudgemæccean, Cot. MS.] I may beat my fellow-servants; cæperit percutere conservos suos, Past. 17, 8; Swt. 121, 12. Feówra sum his heáfodgemacene with three of his equals, L. Wih. 19, 21; Th. i. 40, 17, 21. Mid heora heáfodgemacum cum suis similibus, Bd. 4, 22; S. 591, 8. [Cf. heáfod-mǽg.] heafod-gemaca

Runic Inscription

ᚻᛖᚪᚠᚩᛞ-ᚷᛖᛗᚪᚳᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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