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twelfta

  • noun
  • numeral
  • adjective
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Grammar
twelfta, ord. num.
Wright's OE grammar
§447;
Twelfth
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  • Se twelfta

    duodecimus,

      Ælfc. Gr. 49; Zup. 282, 19.

  • Móna se twelfta,

      Lchdm. iii. 190, 4.

  • Hé wæs twelfta sylf, Andr. Kmbl. 1330; An. 665. ¶ Passages having reference to Twelfth-night, the twelfth day after Christmas, Epiphany :-- Ðæs (

    the first of January

    ) embe fíf niht fulwihtiid éces Drihtnes tó ús cymeþ, ðæne twelfta dæg tíreádige hæleþ hátaþ on
      Brytene, Menol. Fox 25; Men. 13.

  • Ðý twelftan dæge ofer Geohol

    Epiphaniae,

      Bd. 4, 19; S. 588, 8.

  • Ðys sceal on twelftan dæg,

      Rubc. Mt. Kmbl. 2, 1.

  • On twelftan ǽfen,

      2, 19.

  • On Wódnes dæg ofer twelftan dæg,

      3, 13.

  • Eádweard kingc com tó Westmynstre tó ðam middan wintre . . . And hé forðférde on twelftan ǽfen, and hyne man bebyrigde on twelftan dæig on ðam ylcan mynstre,

      Chr. 1065; Erl. 196, 14-19.
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v.  epiphania.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “twelfta.” 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/31202.

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