geþeode
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Old English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
ġeþēode n (nominative plural ġeþēodu)
- language
- c. 890s, The Voyage of Ohthere and Wulfstan
- 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.
- c. 890s, The Voyage of Ohthere and Wulfstan
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Declension of geþeode (strong ja-stem)
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References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ge-þeóde”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.