foreweard
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
foreweard
Declension edit
Declension of foreweard — Strong
Declension of foreweard — Weak
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
From fore- + weard (“ward, keeping”).
Noun edit
foreweard f
- an agreement, compact, treaty
- His brōðer griþ and forewarde eall æftercwæþ ― His brother renounced peace and treaties. (Chr. 1094; Erl. 229, 30, 31)
- Būton he ða forewarda gehēolde ― unless he kept the agreements, (Erl. 229, 32: Cod. Dipl. 732; A.D. 1016-1020; Kmbl. iv. 10, 16)
Declension edit
Declension of foreweard (strong ō-stem)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “foreward”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.