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ge-síþcund

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in a general sense, gentle by birth, gentle in contrast with
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  • Gif his sunu and his sunu sunu ꝥ geþeóð ꝥ hí swá micel landes habban, siþþan bið se ofsprinc gesíðcundes cynnes be twám þúsendum, Ll. Th. i. 188, ll. Drihten on ðreó tówearp þá cneordnysse, þæt wæs wælisc (servile) and on cyrlisc cynn (simple) and on gesýðcund cynn

    (gentle),

      Angl. xi. 3, 63.
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  • Gif gesíðcund mon (cf. se gesíð, 5) þingað wið cyning . . . oþþe wið his hláford for þeówe oþþe for fríge,

      Ll. Th. i. 134, 2.

  • Ánes ge-síðcundes mannes wíf

    coniugem comitis,

      Bd. 5, 4; Sch. 567, 2.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-síþcund.” 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/49694.

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