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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *þabōną, from *þabaz (“fitting; appropriate”).
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þafian
- to consent or agree to, to let happen or be done, to take up
- 9th century, "Elene", ll. 605-608
Ðē sint tū ġearu, swā līf swā dēað, swā ðē lēofre biþ tō ġeċēosanne; cȳð riċene nū hwæt ðū ðæs tō þinge þafian wille.- Two things are prepared for you, both life and death as it best please you to choose; say at once which you are willing to consent to.
- 10th century, "The Old English Rule of St. Benedict" Ch. LVIII. Cotton Tiberius A. iii, fol. 155a.
Þā rēaf mid þām þe hē wæs unsċrīd bēon ġelōgodre on rægulhūse tō ġehealdenna æt suman ċyrre tihtendum dēofle ġif hē þafað þæt hē utgā of minstre.- The clothing that he was divested of should be placed in the monastery to retain should he at some point by the inciting Devil agree to leave the minster.
- to submit to, to suffer, to bear
- to bear with, to tolerate
- 1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, German Lexicon Project
- Hé ilde and ðafode ða scylda and ðeáh hé him gecýðde. ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Þatt Godd ne þole nohht ne þafe laþe gastess to winnenn oferrhannd off uss. ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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