Feorh

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - feorh

According to the Old English Dictionary:

feorh
Add:--Ic cweþe tó eów ꝥ gé ne sorgige eówrum fere (animae) hwæt gé etan . . . ah nis máre ꝥ ferh (anima) þonne se mete?, Mt. R. 6, 25. On earfoþum þǽr wé úres feores ne wénaþ, Bl. H. 51, 28. Nán óþer fioh ðæs hlísan wyrþe búton hiora ágnum fiore, Bt. 39, 11; F. 230, 1. On þám teóþan mónþe ꝥ wíf ne gedígð hyre feore (will not escape with life), gif ꝥ bearn ácenned ne biþ, Lch. iii. 146, 22. Ǽlc crísten mann sceolde be his ágenum feore (under pain of death) þám Hǽlende wiðsacan, Hml. S. 11, 6. Ðæt hié hié selfe tó feore ne gewundigen ac vulnere mortali se feriunt, Past. 365, 11. Grame tó feore, Hml. S. 7, 242. Tó feore áfyrht, Hml. Th. i. 384, 7. Þæt wíf beswác Naboð tó his feore, 488, 6. Ꝥ wé mótan tó wídan feore his onsýne sceáwian, Bl. H. 103, 29. Á tó wídan feore sý úrum Drihtne lof, 65, 24. Manig man his feorh for cyle gesealde many a man died of cold, 213, 32. Uneáðe ic mihte begytan æt Gode ꝥ mé wǽron befæste of þǽre stówe þá feorh þára gebróðra vix obtinere potui, ut mihi ex hoc loco animae concederentur, Gr. D. 140, 29.

Related words: mid-feorh. feorh

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