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fnæd

Middle English edit

Etymology edit

From Old English fnæd.

Noun edit

fnæd

  1. (Early Middle English, rare) border, fringe[1]

References edit

  1. ^ “fnæd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 December 2021.

Old English edit

Etymology edit

Compare fnæs.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fnæd n

  1. fringe,[1] hem or border of a garment[2]
    • 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.

Inflection edit

Declension of fnæd (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative fnæd fnadu
accusative fnæd fnadu
genitive fnædes fnada
dative fnæde fnadum

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Middle English: fnæd

References edit

  1. ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fnæd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. ^ Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “fnæd”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to I  ⁠‎[2], Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.
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