Ge-wyrde

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-wyrd[?], es;

ge-wyrde
n. Speech, conversation, collection of words, sentence, rule[?] :-- Ðæt ic mǽge sum rust on weg adrífan of mínre tungan ðæt ic mǽge becuman to brǽddran gewyrde that I may clear some rust away from my tongue, so that I may attain to more copious speech, Shrn. 35, 22. Wísra gewyrdum by the rules of wise men, Menol. Fox 132; Men. 66. Gewyrd verbositas, Hpt. Gl. 439. [Goth. gawaurdi: O. H. Ger. ga-wurti comma, brevis dictio, Grff. i. 1023.] Cf. andwyrde; and see ge-wyrd. ge-wyrde
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