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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *þeudu.
Pronunciation
Noun
þēod f
- nation, people
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
...on þǣm twām Ægyptum [sindon] fēower and twēntiġ þēoda.- ...in the two Egypts, there are twenty-four peoples.
- language
- 1000-1020, Wulfstan archbishop of York Homilies
and hēo mihton sprecan on ǣghwylcere þēode ðe betwux heofonum and eorðan wǣre- and they could speak in every language there was between heaven and earth
- Synonym: ġeþēode
- (poetic) (in compounds) arch-, main, great
Declension
Declension of þēod (strong ō-stem)
Derived terms
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