nearunes
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nearunes f (nominative plural nearunessa)
- a strait, a narrow space, a place of small extent
- (of the body) oppression, distress
- (of the mind) distress, anxiety, tribulation, trouble, grief
- (of room or means) scantiness
Declension edit
Declension of nearunes (strong ō-stem)
Descendants edit
- Middle English: nearunyss (early), narwenesse
- English: narrowness
References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “nearuness”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.