Brédan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - brédan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- brédan
- p. de To cherish, nourish, hatch an egg :-- Feormat, broe-deth fovet, Wrt. Voc. ii. 108, 79. Brédeþ, feormaþ fovit, 35, 74. Fugelas ne týmað swá swá óðre nýtenu, ac ǽrest hit bið ǽig, and seó módor siððan brét þæt ǽig tó bridde, Hml. Th. i. 250, 24. Been týmað heora teám mid clǽnnysse, of ðám hunige hí brédað heora bród, ii. 10, 17. [O. H. Ger. bruoten fovere.] bredan