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here-pæþ

  • noun [ feminine ]
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here-pæþ, e; f. (?) [Herepæþ seems distinct from strǽt and from weg:
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  • On ðá strét; andlang strét. . . on ðone herepað; of ðám herepað . . . on ðá strét; of ðǽre stréte,

    • C. D. iv. 49, 6-13.
    For weg see C. D. iii. 414, 23 infra]

  • Þanon súþ tó þane herepade

    (to the lawepathe,later version;

    ad illam legalem semitam, Latin version) . . .

    and swá weast andlange herepaðes

    (alonge the lawepathys;

    per longum legales semitas),

    • C. D. B. ii. 386, 25-27
      • .

  • On þone herepað; andlang herepaðes,

    • C. D. iii. 406, 18
      • .

  • Andlang herpaþes,

    • 413, 26
      • .

  • Herpaðes,

    • 406, 32
      • :
    • 407, 3
      • .

  • On herpað; andlanges herpaðes,

    • Cht. Crw. l, ii
      • .

  • Tó herepade;swá west on herepaðe anlang hrygges; ðæt of herepaðe on rúgan díc . . . ; ðonne forð ofer herepað,

    • C. D. iii. 403, 15-17
      • :
    • 416, I
      • .

  • Andlang weges oð ðæt hit cumð tó ðám herpaðe; ðonne ofer ðone herpað,

    • 414, 23.

  • Eást tó hearpaðe; á be hearpaðe,

    • 404. 29
      • .
  • On ðone herepað, ii. 29, 14: iii. 416, 19.

  • On ðone herpað.

    • 415, 30
      • .
perhaps the word may be taken as also feminine (v. pæþ), e. g.:
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  • On ðére herepaðe . . . of ðane ordcearde on ðáre ordere erepað,

    • C D. iii. 415, 20-23.
Etymology
[
The word remains in the local name Harepath. See Cht. Crw. p. 46.
]
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v.  her-pæþ.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “here-pæþ.” 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/52403.

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