ǽfen
- noun [ neuter ]
Wright's OE grammar
§119;
§293;
Add: ǽfen[n], éf(e)rn; [m. and] n.
evening
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Ǽfen vesperum, bedtíd
serum,
- Wrt. Voc. i. 53, 15.
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Seó niht hæfð seofan dǽlas . . óþer is
uesperum,
ðæt is ǽfen, ðonne se ǽfensteorra betwux ðǽre repsunge æteówað,- Lch. iii. 242, 28: Angl. viii. 319, 28.
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Ðá éfern (éfen, R.) warð
vespere facto,
- Mt. L. 26, 20.
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Ðá hyt ǽfen (éfern, L.; æt ǽfenne, R.) wæs
cum sero factum esset,
- Mt. 27, 57.
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Éfrn,
- Mk. L. 11, 11, 19.
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Hí ǽton ǽne on dæg, and ðæt wæs tó ǽfennes,
- Bt. 15; F. 48, 9.
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Éfernes,
- Mt. p. 20, 5.
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Ǽr ǽfenne,
- Bd. 1, 27; S. 496, 28.
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On ðám ǽfene,
- Mt. 26, 20.
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Oð ðæt ǽfen forð fram dæges orde,
- El. 139.
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Metod æfter sceáf ǽfen ǽrest,
- Gen. 138.
eve, the evening preceding a day (of festival). v. eáster-, mæsse-, mónan-, sunnan-, Þunres*-*ǽfen
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Ðám restedæges ǽfene (éfenne,
- R.; éfern, L.) sé ðe
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Árwurðiað ðisne ǽfen, and ðone freólsdæg ðe eów tó merigen becymð,
- Hml. Th. ii. 370, 1.
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In ðone hálgan ǽfen Pentecosten,
- Chr. 626; P. 24, 8.
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On ðone hálgan ǽfen Inuentione sc̃e crucis,
- 912; P. 96, 30.
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On twelftan ǽfen,
- 1053; P. 182, 38.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ǽfen.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/37608.
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