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hád-swǽpa

  • noun [ feminine ]
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hád-swǽpa, hád-swápe.
For these two substitute: hád-swǽpe, hád-swápe, an; f. A woman who attended to the necessary arrangements for a wedding on the part of the bride, a bridesmaid
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  • Hádswǽpe (-a, MS. ; but cf. mínra for mínre, 20)

    pronuba; ipsa est et paranimpha,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 52, 29.
  • Brydlofta sponsalia, wógere procus, brydiguma sponsus, hádswápe pronuba, brýd sponsa, hádswápe

    paranymphus,

      50, 35-40.
  • Dryhtmon paranimphus, hádswǽpe pronuba, brýdguma sponsus, bryd sponsa, brýdbúr thalamus, iémung

    nuptiae,

      288, 79-85.
  • Cf. heorþ-swǽpe.
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  • hád-swǽpa, n.