steorfa
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Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
steorfa (uncountable)
- Alternative form of steorve
Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-West Germanic *sterbō, from Proto-Germanic *sterbô; compare steorfan.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
steorfa m
- pestilence, mortality
- dead animals and their flesh
- dead things and their places of death
Declension[edit]
Declension of steorfa (weak)
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- fǣrsteorfa m (“pestilence”)
Related terms[edit]
- cwelan (“to die”)
- cwellan (“to kill”)
- ġecwylman (“to torment”)
- pīnian (“to torture”)
- steorfan (“to die”)
- sūsl f (“torment”)
- tintregian (“to afflict”)
- tūcian (“to harass”)
- wīte n (“punishment”)
- wreccan (“to twist or torment”)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “steorfa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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- Middle English lemmas
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- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
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