Burg-geréfa

According to the Old English Dictionary:

(burh-).

burg-geréfa

Add :-- Þá frægn se burhgeréfa (cf. Rómeburge geréfa, 28) hyne, Shrn. 96, 30. Se burhgeréfa (cf. ðǽre burge geréfa, 12), 120, 14. Ðæs burhgeréfan (cf. Rómeburge geréfa, 6) sunu (praefecti filius, Ald. 60, 5), 56, 10: Hml. S. 23, 770. Ðá cwæþ Neron tó his burhgeréfan, Bl. H. 189, 28. [A burhrene urbis prefectus, Kath. 1904.] [The word does not seem to occur as the title of an English official, though it is said in Ll. Th. i. 194, 2-4: Ic Ædelstán cýðe þám geréfan tó hwilcere birig. In a Latin charter the praepositus of Oxford (praepositus ciuitatis Oxnaford, C.D. iburh-geréfa to be meant. v. Saxons in England, ii. pp. 171-3.] burg-gerefa

Related words: 285) is mentioned, and in this and in similar cases Kemble supposes a