Un-fáh

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - un-fáh

According to the Old English Dictionary:

un-fáh
adj. Not regarded as a foe, used of the kinsmen of a criminal when not involved in the feud which their kinsman's guilt occasioned :-- Gif hwá heonanforð ǽnigne man ofsleá, ðæt hé wege sylf ða fǽhðe ... Gif hine seó mǽgð forlǽte ... ðonne wille ic ðæt eall seó mǽgð sý unfáh, bútan ðam handdǽdan, L. Edm. S. 1; Th. i. 248, 2-7. [O. Frs. unfách.]

Related words: un-fǽhþ. un-fah

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