feorhlast
Old English
Etymology
Compound of feorh (“life”) + lāst (“footstep”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfe͜orxˌlɑːst/, [ˈfe͜orˠxˌlɑːst]
Noun
feorhlāst m
- a flight (escape), something done to preserve one's life
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “feorh-lást”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.