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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *ebnaz.
Pronunciation
Adjective
efn
- flat
- level, even
- equal
Declension
Declension of efn — Strong
Derived terms
Adverb
efn
- together
- equally, evenly
- just
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"
...and he wunode mid him twentig wintra siððan and on his agenum mynstre em feowertig geara...- ...and he remained with him twenty winters thereafter, and in his own monastery just forty years...
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
...ac ic nat eftsona, ne ic næfre git nyste, þæt ænig oþer byrig us wære gehende buton ephese anre, her on em celian dune...- ...But again I know not, neither knew I ever yet, that any other city was near to us except Ephesus alone, here just beside the Celian Hill;...
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
Feower siðon man awende mynet-isena on his dagum þe ðas halgan þagyt wunodon onmang oþrum mannum and on þam frum-mynet-slæge wæron twa and sixtig penega gewihte seolfres on anum penege, and on þæm æftran em sixtig...- Four times they changed the coinage in his days while the Saints still dwelt among other men; and in the first minting there were two and sixty pence weight of silver in one coin, and in the second just sixty,...
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