hundfeald

hundfeald

1. alternative form of hunfold

hundfeald

1. alternative form of hunfold

From hund (“hundred”) +‎ -feald (“-fold”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxundˌfæ͜ɑld/, [ˈhundˌfæ͜ɑɫd]

hundfeald

1. hundredfold
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Sē ōðer godspellere āwrāt, þæt sum dǣl þǣs sǣdes þe on ðām gōdan lande āsprang āġēaf ðrītiġfealdne wǣstm, sum sixtiġfealdne, sum hundfealdne.

     The second evangelist wrote that some of the seeds that sprang up on the good land yielded thirtyfold fruit, some sixtyfold, and some a hundredfold.

• Middle English: hundfald, hunfold

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