Ge-hámian

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-hámian
Substitute: To settle a person in a home (to obtain domicile for a person :-- Aldréd ... hine gihámadi mið ðǽm ðriim dǽlum ... and æhtu óra seulfres mið tó inláde Aldred obtained domicile for himself (became a member of the Lindisfarne monastery) with the three gospels ... and eight ores of silver besides for entrance, Jn. Skt. p. 188, 5-9. [Cf. Icel. hýsa ok heima to take into one's house and home.] ge-hamian

Related words: hám; II 1 b.),

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