lustbære
Appearance
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lustbǣre
- desirous, desirable, pleasant, agreeable
- c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, "Genesis;" reprinted and normalized in Bruce Mitchell, Fred C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, Fifth Edition, Oxford.: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1992, reprinted in 1999, Part II, Section 2, page 174, lines 11-13:
- Þā ġeseah þæt wīf þæt þæt trēow wæs gōd tō etanne, be þām þe hire þūhte, and wlitiġ on ēagum and lustbǣre on ġesihðe;
- Then saw the woman that the tree was good to eat, as she thought, and beautiful to the eyes and desirable in sight;
- c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, "Genesis;" reprinted and normalized in Bruce Mitchell, Fred C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, Fifth Edition, Oxford.: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1992, reprinted in 1999, Part II, Section 2, page 174, lines 11-13:
Declension
[edit]Declension of lustbǣre — Strong
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
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Nominative | lustbǣre | lustbǣru, lustbǣro | lustbǣre |
Accusative | lustbǣrne | lustbǣre | lustbǣre |
Genitive | lustbǣres | lustbǣrre | lustbǣres |
Dative | lustbǣrum | lustbǣrre | lustbǣrum |
Instrumental | lustbǣre | lustbǣrre | lustbǣre |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | lustbǣre | lustbǣra, lustbǣre | lustbǣru, lustbǣro |
Accusative | lustbǣre | lustbǣra, lustbǣre | lustbǣru, lustbǣro |
Genitive | lustbǣrra | lustbǣrra | lustbǣrra |
Dative | lustbǣrum | lustbǣrum | lustbǣrum |
Instrumental | lustbǣrum | lustbǣrum | lustbǣrum |
Declension of lustbǣre — Weak
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “lust-bǽre”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.