þeód-guma
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þeód-guma
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'A chief man ... great man' substitute: A member of a þeód (v. þeód; I a),
a retainer of a chief. Cf. dryht-guma.
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þeód-guma
, an; m. A chief man of a people, a great man :-- Ða þeódguman (cf. eorlas æscrófe, 26, 20; Jud. 337), Judth. Thw. 26, 17; Jud. 332: 24, 26; Jud. 208. [O. Sax. thiod-gumo :-- Thiodgumo, mári mahtig Krist, Hél. 2576. The word is also used of John the Baptist, 2748.]