efn
Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *ebnaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]efn
Declension
[edit]Declension of efn — Strong
Declension of efn — Weak
Derived terms
[edit]Adverb
[edit]efn
- together
- equally, evenly
- just
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"
- ...and he wunode mid him twentig wintra siððan and on his agenum mynstre em feowertig geara...
- ...and he remained with him twenty winters thereafter, and in his own monastery just forty years...
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
- ...ac ic nat eftsona, ne ic næfre git nyste, þæt ænig oþer byrig us wære gehende buton ephese anre, her on em celian dune...
- ...But again I know not, neither knew I ever yet, that any other city was near to us except Ephesus alone, here just beside the Celian Hill;...
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
- Feower siðon man awende mynet-isena on his dagum þe ðas halgan þagyt wunodon onmang oþrum mannum and on þam frum-mynet-slæge wæron twa and sixtig penega gewihte seolfres on anum penege, and on þæm æftran em sixtig...
- Four times they changed the coinage in his days while the Saints still dwelt among other men; and in the first minting there were two and sixty pence weight of silver in one coin, and in the second just sixty,...
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"