Fæderen-cyn

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fæderen-cyn

According to the Old English Dictionary:

fædren-cyn, -cynn, es ;

fæderen-cyn
n. [cyn a race, kin] A paternal kin or race; păternum gĕnus :-- Hiera ryht fæderencyn [fædrencynn, Th. 87, 14, col. 1] gǽþ to Cerdice their direct paternal kin goes to Cerdic, Chr. 755 Th. 86, 14, col. 1. We areccan ne mágon ðæt fædrencynn we cannot tell the paternal kin, Exon. 11 b ; Th. 16, 4 ; Cri. 248. fæderen-cyn
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