feþa

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.θɑ/, [ˈfeː.ðɑ]

Noun

fēþa m

1. an infantry
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Þǣr wæs Persa X M ofslæġen ġehorsedra, ⁊ eahtatiġ M fēþena, ⁊ eahtatiġ M ġefangenra.

     There, 10,000 Persian cavalry were slain, and 80,000 infantry, and 80,000 were captured.

2. troop, company, host of soldiers
3. battle

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	fēþa	fēþan
accusative	fēþan	fēþan
genitive	fēþan	fēþena
dative	fēþan	fēþum

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “féða”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.