feþa
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfeː.θɑ/, [ˈfeː.ðɑ]
Noun
fēþa m
- an infantry
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- Þǣr wæs Persa X M ofslæġen ġehorsedra, ⁊ eahtatiġ M fēþena, ⁊ eahtatiġ M ġefangenra.
- There, 10,000 Persian cavalry were slain, and 80,000 infantry, and 80,000 were captured.
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- troop, company, host of soldiers
- battle
Declension
Weak:
singular | plural | |
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nominative | fēþa | fēþan |
accusative | fēþan | fēþan |
genitive | fēþan | fēþena |
dative | fēþan | fēþum |
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “féða”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.