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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *melþōn.
Pronunciation
Verb
meldian
- to inform; notify; report
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
Hē nolde meldian on his ġefēran þe mid him sieredon ymb þone cyning.- He wouldn't inform on his companions who had conspired with him against the king.
Ðus ælfred us / ealdspell reahte, / cyning Westsexna, / cræft meldode, / leoðwyrhta list.- Thus Alfred recounted old stories to us, king of the West Saxons, he declared his craft, the poet his art.
- to declare; announce
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