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an equal, a fellow, companion
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  • Inpar ungemaca; dispar ungelíc; compar gelíc, gemaca;

    separ

    ásyndrod gemaca,
      Ælfc. Gr. Z. 43, . 1-3.

  • Fædores gimaca Patris compar, Rtl. 165, II. Gimacca (

    or under

    ge-mæcca ?),
      164, 3.

  • Wolde gé nú ðæt gé næfden nánne gemacan on ðys gemǽnan middan-gearde

    habere in communi mundo consortes minime potestis ?,

      Past. 331, 2.

  • Wosað gié gimaco Godes

    estote imitatores Dei,

      Rtl. 12, ll.
of things
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  • Ic gean þes beáhges gemacan þe man sealde mínum hláforde,

      Cht. Th. 524, 28.
a mate,
of persons,
one of a married pair,
either husband or wife [cf. ge-bedda which is used of a husband,
    Hml. Th. i. 134, 20
]
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  • Hic et haec conjunx

    þes and þeós gemaca,
      Ælfc. Gr. 73, 12.
  • Wudewan hád is ꝥ man wunige on clǽnnysse . . . æfter his gemacan, ǽgðer ge weras ge wíf. Hml. A. 20, 155.
a husband
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  • Wíf sceolde syððan mid Godes bletsunge geneálǽcan hyre gemacan,

      Hml. Th. i. 134, 23.
a wife
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  • Sume þá apostolas hæfdon him gemacan,

      Hml. A. 14, 34.
of animals,
one of a pair
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  • Ádruncon ealle cwice wihta búton ehta mannum . . . and ælces cynnes twá gemacan,

      Wlfst. 206, 27.
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v. hand-gemaca, land-gemaca, un-gemaca.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-maca.” 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/48767.

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