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Old English · noun

dæd

Normalised dǣd

Part of speech
noun, feminine
Declension
strong i-stem
IPA
/dæːd/
Syllables
dæːd (1 syllable)
Modern English
deedactionexploitevent

Meaning

  1. action, deed

    Þæt iċ bē ðām hālgan fæder Cūðbyrhte wrāt oððe on þysse bēċ oððe on ōðre, þā dǣda his līfes, sume iċ ǣrest nōm of þām ġewrītum ðe iċ āwriten ġemette mid þām broðrum þǣre ċyriċean æt Lindesfearona ēa sumu ðā þe iċ sylf onġitan mihte þurh swīðe ġetrēowa manna ġesæġene iċ tōycte.

    That which I wrote about the holy father Cuthbert, either in this book or another, about his life's deeds, some I took first from what I found among the brethren of the church at Lindisfarne, and I have added on the particulars which I could glean through conversations with very trustworthy people.

    late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
  2. event, exploit

Declension

Declension of dæd
SingularPlural
Nominative dǣddǣdedǣda
Accusative dǣddǣdedǣdedǣda
Genitive dǣdedǣda
Dative dǣdedǣdum

All forms (4)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dādi, from Proto-Germanic *dēdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tis, from the root *dʰeh₁-.

Descendants

deed

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