Old English · noun
æfteryldo
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
Meaning
old age
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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