Twelf-gilde

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - twelf-gilde

According to the Old English Dictionary:

twelf-gilde
adj. To be restored twelve-fold:--Godes feoh and ciricean .xii.-gilde the property of the church, if stolen, is to be restored twelve-fold (the word, however, might be a noun = a restoration of twelve times the amount stolen, cf. án-gilde; or adverb (dat.?), cf. ix-gylde forgylde, 4; Th. i. 4, 3), L. Ethb. 1; Th. i. 2, 4. twelf-gilde
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