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Old English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ervum.
Pronunciation
Noun
earfe f
- (rare) common vetch (Vicia sativa)
Declension
Declension of earfe (weak)
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “earfe”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “earfe”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to I , Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.