Ge-deorf

De acordo com o Dicionário de Inglês Antigo:

(1)

ge-deorf

labour, toil, work :-- Gif gedeorf (labor) oðþe sumer-hǽte hwylces eácan (an increase of food) behófige, R. Ben. 64, 17. Of folclicum gedeorfe ex plebeio labore, 138, 22. On sceortum gedeorfe labore breui, Wülck. Gl. 256, 27. Woldon hremmas hine bereáfian æt his gedeorfum . . . Ðá hremmas flugon . . . , and se hálga his geswinces breác, Hml. Th. ii. 144, 13-20. (2) trouble, laborious effort, difficulty :-- 'Micel gedeorf bið mé þæt ic míne feónd lufige.' Ne wiðcweðe wé þæt hit micel gedeorf ne sý; ac gif hit is hefigtýme . . . , Hml. Th. i. 56, 1-4. Þæt hý þe glædlícor bútan gedeorfe and miclum geswince heora gebróðrum ðénien ut sine murmuratione et graui labore seruiant fratribus suis, R. Ben. 59, 15. Epactas . . . bútan gedeorfe wé magon gecýðan heora úpspring, Lch. iii. 282, 3. (3) trouble, tribulation, affliction :-- On gedeorfe in tribulatione, Ps. L. 4, 2. Gedeorf mín laborem meum, 24, 18. Gedeorfu heortan mínre tribulationes cordis mei, Ps. Rdr. 24, 17. ge-deorf