fnæd
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Middle English
Etymology
From Old English fnæd.
Noun
fnæd
References
- ^ “fnæd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 December 2021.
Old English
Etymology
Compare fnæs.
Pronunciation
Noun
fnæd n
- fringe, hem or border of a garment
- c.990-1175, Gospel of Saint Mark, 6:56,
- hine bædon þæt hi huru his refes fnæd æthrinon.
- they asked that they could indeed touch the hem of his garment.
- c.990-1175, Gospel of Saint Matthew, 9:56,
- þa an wif þe þolode blodryne twelf gear [...] æthrān hys rēafes fnæd;
- then a woman who had suffered bleeding for twelve years touched the fringe of his garment.
- c.990-1175, Gospel of Saint Mark, 6:56,
Inflection
Declension of fnæd (strong a-stem)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle English: fnæd
References
- ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fnæd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “fnæd”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to I
, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.
