waþem
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Old English
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]waþem m
- wave, billow
- 10th century, The Wanderer:
- siþþan ġeāra iū · goldwine mīn(n)e
hrusan heolstre biwrāh, · ond iċ hēan þonan
wōd winterċeariġ · ofer waþema ġebind,- since once, long ago, covered my goldfriend(s)
with darkness of earth, and poor I thereupon
traveled sad as winter over binding of waves,
- since once, long ago, covered my goldfriend(s)
Declension
[edit]Declension of waþem (strong a-stem)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “waþem”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.