feþa
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Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fēþa m
- an infantry
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- Þǣr wæs Persa X M ofslæġen ġehorsedra, ⁊ eahtatiġ M fēþena, ⁊ eahtatiġ M ġefangenra.
- There, 10,000 Persian cavalry were slain, and 80,000 infantry, and 80,000 were captured.
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- troop, company, host of soldiers
- battle
Declension
[edit]Declension of fēþa (weak)
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “féða”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.