dædbana
Old English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dǣdbana m (nominative plural dǣdbanan)
- an evil-doer, a perpetrator of murder
- Gif man gehádodne mid fǽhþe belecge, and secge ðæt he wǽre dǽdbana ― if any one charge one in holy orders with enmity, and say that he was a perpetrator of homicide.
References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “dædbana”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.