æfen
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Form reflects Proto-West Germanic *āban, a byform or derivative of *ābanþ.
Cognate with Old Frisian ēvend, Old Saxon āƀand, Old Dutch āvont, Old High German ābant, Old Norse aptann.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ǣfen m
- evening
- eve: the day/evening/night before something
- mōnanǣfen ― Sunday evening
- *ġēolǣfen ― Christmas Eve
- (Christianity) vespers
Declension edit
Declension of æfen (strong a-stem)
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
- ǣfendreām
- ǣfengebēd
- ǣfengereord
- ǣfengereordian
- ǣfengifl
- ǣfenglōm
- ǣfengrom
- ǣfenhrepsung
- ǣfenlāc
- ǣfenlǣcan
- ǣfenleōht
- ǣfenleōþ
- ǣfenlīc
- ǣfenmete
- ǣfenrest
- ǣfenrima
- ǣfensang
- ǣfensceōp
- ǣfenscīma
- ǣfenspræc
- ǣfensteorra
- ǣfenþēnung
- ǣfenþeōwdōm
- ǣfentīd
- ǣfentīma
- ǣfentungel
- ǣfnung
- English: evening
- ġiestranǣfen
- Mōnanǣfen
Descendants edit
References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ǢFEN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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