Ge-deorfleás

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-deorfleás
adj. This word in Glos. Prudent. Recd. 151, 73 is explained nil prosperum. The natural meaning would be without labour, trouble, which hardly agrees with that given above. Leo 230, 38, to connect the two, suggests the meaning without effort, so without result, success. ge-deorfleas,gedeorf-leas
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