Ge-treówsian

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-treówsian
Add: I. to pledge oneself, engage :-- Him cómon ongeán VI cyningas and ealle wið hine getreówsodon ꝥ hí woldon efenwyrhtan beón on sǽ and on lande, Chr. 972; Th. i. 225, 17. I a. with reflex. pron. :-- Ealle Norðhymbra witan wið þone cyning hí getreówsoden, and binnan litlan fæce hit eall álugon, 947; P. 112, 24. II. to prove true, clear of a charge of falseness :-- Hé be his hláfordes were hine getreówsie (-tríw-, ), Ll. Th. i. 64, 5. ge-treowsian

Related words: l.

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