æfteryldo
Old English
Etymology
By surface analysis, æfter (“after”) + ieldu (“age”)
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈæf.terˌyl.do/, [ˈæf.terˌyɫ.do]
Noun
æfteryldo f
- old age
- an 'after-age,' a time after or since
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
- Æfter þyssum cōm gōd ġēar, ⁊ swā ēac miċel ġenihtsumnys wǣstma on Breotone lond, swā nǣniġ æfteryldo syððan ġemunan mæġ.
- After that came a good year, and there was such a great abundance of produce in the land of Britain, as no age since can record.
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “æfteryldo”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.