geþeode

Old English

Etymology

ġe- +‎ þēode

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jeˈθe͜oː.de/

Noun

ġeþēode n (nominative plural ġeþēodu)

1. language
   • c. 890s, The Voyage of Ohthere and Wulfstan

     Þā Finnas, him þūhte, and þā Beormas sprǣcon nēah ān ġeþēode.

     The Sami and the Bjarmians, it seemed to him, spoke almost the same language.

   • unknown author, preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     Bretene īeġland is eahta hund mīla lang and twā hund mīla brād, and hēr sind on þām īeġlande fīf ġeþēodu: Englisċ, Bretwīelisċ, Sċyttisċ, Pihtisċ, and Bōclǣden.

     The island of Britain is eight hundred miles long and two hundred miles wide. Five languages are spoken here: English, British, Gaelic, Pictish, and Latin.

Declension

Strong ja-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	ġeþēode	ġeþēodu
accusative	ġeþēode	ġeþēodu
genitive	ġeþēodes	ġeþēoda
dative	ġeþēode	ġeþēodum

Synonyms

• ġereord
• sprǣċ
• tunge

Descendants

• Middle English: itheode, ȝeðeode

References

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