foreweard
Appearance
Old English
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]foreweard
Declension
[edit]Declension of foreweard — Strong
Declension of foreweard — Weak
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From fore- + weard (“ward, keeping”).
Noun
[edit]foreweard f
- an agreement, compact, treaty
- His brōðer griþ and forewarde eall æftercwæþ ― His brother renounced peace and treaties. (Chr. 1094; Erl. 229, 30, 31)
- Būton he ða forewarda gehēolde ― unless he kept the agreements, (Erl. 229, 32: Cod. Dipl. 732; A.D. 1016-1020; Kmbl. iv. 10, 16)
Declension
[edit]Strong ō-stem:
singular | plural | |
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nominative | foreweard | forewearda, forewearde |
accusative | forewearde | forewearda, forewearde |
genitive | forewearde | forewearda |
dative | forewearde | foreweardum |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “foreward”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.