eldertongue

Old English · noun

æfteryldo

Part of speech
noun, feminine

Meaning

  1. old age

  2. an 'after-age,' a time after or since

    Æfter þyssum cōm gōd ġēar, ⁊ swā ēac miċel ġenihtsumnys wǣstma on Breotone lond, swā nǣniġ æfteryldo syððan ġemunan mæġ.

    After that came a good year, and there was such a great abundance of produce in the land of Britain, as no age since can record.

    late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

Etymology

By surface analysis, æfter (“after”) + ieldu (“age”)

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