æwbryce
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Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *aiwibruki. Equivalent to ǣ (“marriage”) + bryċe (“breach”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ǣwbryċe m
- adultery
- Synonyms: ċiefeshād, dernġeliġersċipe, dyrneġeliġer, forliġenes, forliġer, ġeliġer, ġeliġernes
Declension
[edit]Declension of ǣwbryċe (strong i-stem)
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ǣwbryċe”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.