Ge-maca

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

ge-maca

Add: I. an equal, a fellow, companion (1) of persons :-- Inpar ungemaca; dispar ungelíc; compar gelíc, gemaca; separ ásyndrod gemaca, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 43, . 1-3. Fædores gimaca Patris compar, Rtl. 165, II. Gimacca (or under ge-mæcca ?), 164, 3. Wolde gé nú ðæt gé næfden nánne gemacan on ðys gemǽnan middan-gearde habere in communi mundo consortes minime potestis ?, Past. 331, 2. Wosað gié gimaco Godes estote imitatores Dei, Rtl. 12, ll. (2) of things :-- Ic gean þes beáhges gemacan þe man sealde mínum hláforde, Cht. Th. 524, 28. II. a mate, (1) of persons, one of a married pair, (a) either husband or wife [cf. ge-bedda which is used of a husband, Hml. Th. i. 134, 20] :-- Hic et haec conjunx þes and þeós gemaca, Ælfc. Gr. 73, 12. Wudewan hád is ꝥ man wunige on clǽnnysse . . . æfter his gemacan, ǽgðer ge weras ge wíf. Hml. A. 20, 155. (b) a husband :-- Wíf sceolde syððan mid Godes bletsunge geneálǽcan hyre gemacan, Hml. Th. i. 134, 23. (c) a wife :-- Sume þá apostolas hæfdon him gemacan, Hml. A. 14, 34. (2) of animals, one of a pair :-- Ádruncon ealle cwice wihta búton ehta mannum . . . and ælces cynnes twá gemacan, Wlfst. 206, 27.

Parole correlate: hand-, land-, un-gemaca. ge-maca