Ge-saca

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-saca
Add: One who is in conflict with another. (1) in a general sense, an opponent, adversary :-- p sum wer wunne on þǽre hengestan hatunge his gesacan (adversarii sui), Gr. D. 158, 26. (2) where a case is tried, an accuser :-- Him wæs leaf seald þæt he moste him scyldan on andweardnesse his gesacena (-ona, ) (praesentibus accusatoribus) . . . wæs cýðed þæt hys wrégend and his gesacan (accusatores eius) lease wið hine syredon, Bd. 5, 19 ; Sch. 668, 1-2. [Cf. ga-sachio in Salic law, Grm. R. A. 855.] ge-saca

Related words: l.

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