geþeode

ġe- +‎ þēode

• IPA^(key): /jeˈθe͜oː.de/

ġeþēode n (nominative plural ġeþēodu)

1. language
   • c. 890s, The Voyage of Ohthere and Wulfstan

     Þā Finnas, him þūhte, and þā Beormas sprǣcon nēah ān ġeþēode.

     The Sami and the Bjarmians, it seemed to him, spoke almost the same language.

   • unknown author, preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     Bretene īeġland is eahta hund mīla lang and twā hund mīla brād, and hēr sind on þām īeġlande fīf ġeþēodu: Englisċ, Bretwīelisċ, Sċyttisċ, Pihtisċ, and Bōclǣden.

     The island of Britain is eight hundred miles long and two hundred miles wide. Five languages are spoken here: English, British, Gaelic, Pictish, and Latin.

Strong ja-stem:

• ġereord
• sprǣċ
• tunge

• Middle English: itheode, ȝeðeode
  • → English: athede, atheed (learned)

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ge-þeóde”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.