Ge-byrde

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-byrde

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-bierde;

ge-byrde
adj. Inborn, innate, natural; innatus, ingenitus, naturalis :-- Ne him nis gebyrde ðæt hí ðé folgien it is not natural to them that they should follow thee, Bt. 14, 1; Fox 40, 34. Him gebyrde is ðæt he géncwidas gleáwe hæbbe to him it is natural that he should have prudent replies, Elen. Kmbl. 1183; El. 593. ge-byrde
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