oferheafod
Old English
editEtymology
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editoferhēafod
- generally, in general, in every case
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
- Þeos towritennys wearð aræred fram ðam ealdormen Cyrino, of Sirian lande, þæt ælc man ofer-hēafod sceolde cennan his gebyrde, and his áre on ðære byrig þe hé to gehyrde.
- This enrolment was set forth from Cyrenius, the governor of Syria—that every man in general should declare his birth and his possession in the city to which he belonged.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “oferheáfod”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.