dædbana
Old English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editdǣdbana 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.