wegfarende
Old English
Etymology
From weġ (“way”) + farende (“travelling”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwejˌfɑ.ren.de/
Adjective
weġfarende
- wayfaring
- (substantive) a wayfarer
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
- Þæt sǣd þe fēoll bē ðām weġe mid twyfealdre dare losode, ðāðā weġferende hit fortrǣdon, and fugelas tōbǣron.
- The seed that fell by the way perished to a double injury, when the wayfarer tread upon it and when the birds carried it away.
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
Descendants
- English: wayfaring
References
- Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “weg-farende”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.