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Wright's OE grammar
§225; §391; §563; §574;
Add: n. (see Bl. H. 167, 8: Hml. S. 4, 256 below).
birth.
bearing of a child by the mother
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  • Þú wuldorfæste hlǽfdige þe God æfter flǽsces gebyrde ácendest,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 433.

  • Oft þæt gegongeð þætte wer and wíf in woruld cennað bearn mid gebyrdum,

      Vy. 3.
of a child,
the being born
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  • Ǽr þon þe hé þǽre gesýnelican gegaderunge menniscre gebyrde onfénge,

      Bl. H. 165, 36.

  • Hé on þǽrehis gebyrde oferswíþde ealle ǽ þisse menniscan gebyrde,

      167, 3.
  • Hé latode on þissum líchomlicum gebyrde, 8.

  • Manige on his gebyrd gefeóþ,

      165, 10.

  • On þá his gebyrd,

      167, 16.

  • Þa Críst com on ðás woruld þurh ménnisce gebyrde,

      Wlfst. 82, 15. (2 a) where the birth is celebrated yearly :-- Be þisse hálgan tíde weorþunga ...,
    ,
  • Hér segð ymb Drihtnes gebyrd ... þý forma dæg Dryhtnes gebyrde. Lch. iii. 164, 13-28.

  • On þone ilcan dæig Godes circean árworðiad Sca Anastasiam gebird,

      Shrn. 30, 20.
the origin of a thing
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  • Gebyrdum

    cunabulis,

      An. Ox. 3137.
what is born, offspring, a child
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  • ꝥ nǽfre betuh wífa gebyrdum (

    inter natos mulierim

    ) nǽnig mǽrra geboren nǽre.
      Bl. H. 161, 23: 167, 18.
parentage, lineage
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  • Hé wæs of Dauides mǽgðe and wolde andettan mid Marian hire gebyrde,

      Hml. Th. i. 30, 9.

  • Tó ǽwisclicum bismer gebyrda

    ad infame dedecus natalium (i. propinquorum ),

      Hpt. 507, 10.

  • Gebyrda ł freónda

    natalicium,

    37.

  • Gemunan hwylcra gebyrda þú wǽre,

      Bt. 5, 1; F. 10, 3: R. Ben. 12, 20.

  • Hé befrán hí be hyre gebyrdum,

      Hml. S. 8, 40.

  • Bisceopas ne beóð nú be gebyrdum gecorene,

      10, 228.

  • Hé hine tó óþrum men híwað, and his gebyrda mid þám bedíglað, Hml. S. 23, 692. IV a. where the character (high or low) of birth is marked :-- Wæs se cyning æþelre gebyrde

    erat rex natu nobilis,

      Bd. 2, 15; Sch. 175, 10.

  • Wer tor worolde æþelre gebyrde (æþelra gebyrda,

    v.l.) vir ad saeculum nobilis,

      5, 10; Sch. 604, 11.

  • Þá cnihtas lyfedan búton éhtnysse for hyra mycclum gebyrde,

      Hml. S. 4, 256.

  • Wæs hé for worlde swíþe æþelra gebyrda and gódra,

      Bl. H. 211, 19.

  • Þeán hwá wexe mid micelre æþelcundnesse his gebyrda,

      Bt. 19; F. 68, 31: Gr. D. 151 23.

  • Of æþelum gebyrdum ácenned

    generosis natalibus ortus,

      An. Ox. 4151: Wrt. Voc. ii. 59, 73: Ap. Th. 20, 2.

  • Hí ne beóð swá æðele on gebyrdum swá hí woldon. Sume beóþ swíðe æþele on heora gebyrdum,

      Bt. 11, 1; F. 30, 31-33.

  • Hí taliað þe wyrsan for heánon gebyrdan þá þe heora yldran on worolde ne wurdan welige, Ll. Th. i. 334, 2. IV b.

    good birth

    :-- Ic wát þíne æðelborennysse, and ic þé for ðí tihte ꝥ ðú þám godum geoffrige æfter þínre gebyrde,
      Hml. S. 4, 131.

  • Bebyriað hire (Jezebel) líc for hire gebyrdum (

    sepelite eam; quia filia regis est,

    2 Kings
      9, 34), 18, 351.

  • Hwí ofermódige gé ofer óþre men for eówrum gebyrdum?,

      Bt. 30, 2; F. 110, 15.

  • Gebyrdan,

      Ll. Th. i. 332, 34.

  • Heó óþerne tealde tóforan his gebyrdum

    she accounted another of better family than his,

      Hml. S. 7. 75.
rank, position due to birth
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  • Se wurðfulla cniht þá brýdlác geforþode, and gefette ꝥ mǽden mid woruldlicum wurðmynte swá swá heora gebyrde wǽron (

    in a manner befitting their rank

    ),
      Hml. S. 34, 22.
  • Cwæð hé tó þám cynegum: 'Beorgað eówrum gebyrdum, and búgað tó úrum godum,' 24, 33.

  • Eóde swá ábútan be heora gebirdum and be heora geþingþum,

      Jud. p. 161, 25.
nature, natural character, v. ge-byrde
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  • Eall þeós ménnisce gebyrd Sancte Ióhanne bedyrned is

    human frailties were unknown to St. John,

      Bl. H. 167, 27.

  • Þonne seó wamb bið hátre gebyrdo and gecyndo,

      Lch. ii. 220, 16.

  • Tó hwon þú sceole for ówiht þysne man habban, ungelǽredne fiscere þone leásostan, and náwþer ne on worde ne on gebyrdum mid nǽnigre mihte gewelgode (

    endowed with no natural abilities

    ),
      Bl. H. 179, 15.
what happens, fate, lot (cf. (?)
Icel. bera (impers.) to befall, happen; at-burðr a chance, hap)
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  • Conditio, i. status, procreatio, natura, sors,

    gescæp, gewyrd, gescæft, gebyrd,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 135, 63.
continuity (?), uninterrupted order. v. ge-byrdelíce, -byrdlic
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  • Náh seó módor geweald, þonne heó magan cenneð, bearnes blǽdes, ac sceal on gebyrd faran án æfter ánum

    the children must in order die one after the other,

      Sal. 384.

  • Heó wearð beloren bearnum and bróðrum; hié on gebyrd hruron (

    they fell one after the other

    ) gáre wunde,
      B. 1074.
Etymology
[Thsse two passages might belong to VII.]
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v. flǽsc-gebyrd.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-byrd.” 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/47387.

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