steorfa
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Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]steorfa (uncountable)
- Alternative form of steorve
Old English
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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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