æwbryce
Old English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *aiwibruki. Equivalent to ǣ (“marriage”) + bryċe (“breach”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editǣwbryċe m
- adultery
- Synonyms: ċiefeshād, dernġeliġersċipe, dyrneġeliġer, forliġenes, forliġer, ġeliġer, ġeliġernes
Declension
editDeclension of æwbryce (strong i-stem)
References
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ǣwbryċe”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.