Ge-hwæþer
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-hwæþer
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-hwæþer
- Add; Each of two. I. used substantively. (1) alone, (a) each of two objects :-- Gesīdcund man . . . ceorlisc man . . . gehwæder ꝥ hǣmed forlǣte, Ll. Th. i. 38, 7. (b) each of two circumstances, conditions, &c. (α) the circumstances already stated :-- Ne meahte seó weálāf wīge forstandan gestrión; sealdon unwillum ēdel-weardas ādas. Wæs gehwæderes wā, Met. l, 25. (β) the circumstances following :-- Him wæs gehwsedres wā, ge . . . ge . . . , El. 628. Dō þonne gehwæþer, ge on dā wunde lege, and eác drinc swȳþe þearle, Lch. i. 78, 9. (2) governing a genitive :-- An wīg gearwe ge æt hām ge on herge, ge gehwæder þāra efne swylce mǣla swylce hira mandryhtne þearf gesǣlde, B. 1248. Ic gemyndige þā mǣran Raab and Babilonis, bēgea gehwæderes memor era Rahab et Babylonis, Ps. Th. 86, 2. Hē sealde hiora gehwædrum, B. 2994. (3) used reciprocally :-- Hygelāce wæs nefa hold, and gehwæder ōdrum hrōdra gemyndig, B. 2171. ¶ passing into a conjunction, II. adjectival :-- Gehwæderes promiscui, Wrt. Voc. ii. 66, 58. Æt gehwederum mūde, Ll. Th. i. 96, II. Wearþ micel wælsliht on gehwæþere bond, Chr. 871; P. 72, 2 : By. 112. III. adverbial, in each case. Cf. I. ¶ :-- Þǣre eordan on nānre ne mōt se rodor neár þonne on ōdre stōwe gestæppan, strīced ymbūtan ufane and neodane efenneáh gehwæder (equally near both above and below; cf. se rodor is þǣre eorþan emneáh ge ufan ge neobon, Bt. 33, 4; F. 130, 23), Met. 20, 141. [O. H. Ger. ge-hwedar uterque.] ge-hwæþer,ge-hwæðer