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Old English
Etymology
ġe- + þēode
Pronunciation
Noun
ġeþēode n (nominative plural ġeþēodu)
- language
- c. 890s, The Voyage of Ohthere and Wulfstan
Þā Finnas, him þūhte, and þā Beormas sprǣcon nēah ān ġeþēode.- The Sami and the Bjarmians, it seemed to him, spoke almost the same language.
- unknown author, preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Bretene īeġland is eahta hund mīla lang and twā hund mīla brād, and hēr sind on þām īeġlande fīf ġeþēodu: Englisċ, Bretwīelisċ, Sċyttisċ, Pihtisċ, and Bōclǣden.- The island of Britain is eight hundred miles long and two hundred miles wide. Five languages are spoken here: English, British, Gaelic, Pictish, and Latin.
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Declension of ġeþēode (strong ja-stem)
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