gedwola
Appearance
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From or related to the verb dwolian (“to make a mistake, be wrong”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ġedwola m
- (countable) mistake, error
- (uncountable) error
- sē mennesca ġedwola
- human error
- (countable, uncountable) heresy
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
- Þēos sibb āwunade on Crīstes cyriċan...ōþ ðā tīde þe sē Arrianisċa gėdweolda ārās.
- This peace persisted in Christ's church...until the time that the Arian heresy arose.
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
- heretic
Declension
[edit]Weak:
singular | plural | |
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nominative | ġedwola | ġedwolan |
accusative | ġedwolan | ġedwolan |
genitive | ġedwolan | ġedwolena |
dative | ġedwolan | ġedwolum |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĠEDWOLA”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.