Ge-wife

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-wife
fate. Substitute: ge-wif, es; n. Fortune, fate :-- Gewife wyrde fato fortune (gentililas, quae vitam veritatis expertern fato fortunae et genesi gubernari juxta Mathernaticoruni constellationem arbitratur, Ald. 35, 36), Wrt. Voc. ii. 79, 60, 61. Gewife fato, gewife fortune, 37, 7, 8. Gewife fortune (the word seems glossed as dative, but is genitive, the passage being: Ipsos fortunae casibus oppressos, Ald. 42, 5), wyrdum cassibus, 81, 44, 45. Gewif, wyrd furtunum, fatum, Wülck. Gl. 245, 44. Him Dryhten forgeaf wígspéda gewiofu, B. 697. Cf. wefan; II: ge-wefan ; II. ge-wife
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