mandæd
Old English
Etymology
By surface analysis, mān (“evil”) + dǣd.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɑːnˌdæːd/
Noun
māndǣd f
- evil deed, crime, sin
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
- Sēo tīd onginð on ðisum Sunnandæġe, nigon wucon ǣr Ēastron, and ġeendað on ðām Saternesdæġe þǣre Ēasterlīċan wucan: tō ðām dæġe sind heonon ġetealde hundseofontiġ daga; and þæt Israhela folc, for heora māndǣdum and forgǣġednyssum, wurdon ġehergode, and hundseofontiġ ġēara on Babilonisċum þēowdōme, buton blisse and myrhðe, wunodon.
- This time begins this Sunday, nine weeks before Easter, and ends on the Saturday in the week of Easter: to that day, from here, are seventy days; and the Israelites, for their evil deeds and transgressions, were taken captive, and spent seventy years living in slavery to the Bablyonians, without joy or mirth.
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
Declension
Strong i-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | māndǣd | māndǣde, māndǣda |
| accusative | māndǣd, māndǣde | māndǣde, māndǣda |
| genitive | māndǣde | māndǣda |
| dative | māndǣde | māndǣdum |
References
- Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “mán-dǽd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.