Þeófian

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

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þeófian

and þeófan? The Lindisfarne gloss has ðæt ðú ne forstele l ne forðiófe, Mk. 10, 19; the Kentish Glossary, diófende furtivus; but this might imply the form ðiófian, cf. tácnendi and tácnian: cf. also, for both force and form of the participle styrende agitatam, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 11, 7) to thieve, steal :-- Se ðe ða áre þænce tó þeófigenne qui quid illinc abstulerit, Chart. Th. 177, 13. Ðiófende weteru stolen waters; aque furtive, Kent. Gl. 309. [O. H. Ger. thaz sie mit stalu nan nirzuken noh inan thar githiuben, Or. i

Parole correlate: 36, 12.] v. ge-þeófian. þeofian