Ge-mǽgþ

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-mǽgþ
Substitute: A collection of kinsmen, a family :-- Seó dǽd . . . þætte ealre worolde swelce sibbe bringan mehte, ꝥte twá þeóda ǽr habban ne mehton, ne ðætte lǽsse wæs, twá gemǽgþa omnibus gentibus unam fuisse voluntatem inservire paci; quod prius ne una quidem civitas, unusve populus civium, vel, quad majus est, una domus fratrum habere potuisset, Ors. 3, 5 ; S. 108, 2. Cf. ge-mǽgas. ge-mægþ
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