geþiedan
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Old English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ġeþīedan (Early West Saxon)
- to join, unite, connect, associate
- "Genesis", chapter 2, verse 24
- For þām forlǣt sē man fæder and mōder and ġeþēot hine tō his wīfe, and hīġ bēoþ būtū on ānum flǣsċe.
- Therefore a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
- "Boethius", 16, 3
- Þæt is on þām sweotol þæt hī hīe simle tō þām gōdum ne ðēodað, ne ðā yfelan gōde ne ġedōð, þe hī hīe oftost tō geðēodaþ.
- This is evident in that, that they do not always join themselves to the good, nor make the evil good, which they most often join themselves to.
- "Genesis", chapter 2, verse 24
- to apply, adjust, translate
- 1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, German Lexicon Project
- He ðám wordum sóna monig word to geþeódde. ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Ðonne mihte he ðara ríme geþeóded beón. ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- He hét ðisne regul of læden-gereorde on englisc geþeódan. ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, German Lexicon Project
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of ġeþīedan (weak class 1)
infinitive | ġeþīedan | ġeþīedenne |
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indicative mood | present tense | past tense |
first person singular | ġeþīede | ġeþīedde |
second person singular | ġeþīedest, ġeþīetst | ġeþīeddest |
third person singular | ġeþīedeþ, ġeþīett, ġeþīet | ġeþīedde |
plural | ġeþīedaþ | ġeþīeddon |
subjunctive | present tense | past tense |
singular | ġeþīede | ġeþīedde |
plural | ġeþīeden | ġeþīedden |
imperative | ||
singular | ġeþīed | |
plural | ġeþīedaþ | |
participle | present | past |
ġeþīedende | ġeþīeded |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “geþiedan”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Old English to Modern English Translator
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “geþiedan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.