Ge-hǽman

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-hǽman
Add: (1) in a good sense, to marry:--Gehǽmed nupta, An. Ox. 1176. (2) in a bad sense, to have illicit intercourse:--Uenus wæs swá fúl and swá fracod on gálnysse, þæt hyre ágen bróðor wið hý gehǽmde, Wlfst. 107, 16. Ꝥ man wið swustor gehǽme, Ll. Th. i. 404, 27.

Related words: un-gehǽmed. ge-hæman

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