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Old English · adjective

deaf

Normalised dēaf

Part of speech
adjective
IPA
/dæ͜ɑːf/
Syllables
dæ͜ɑːf (1 syllable)
Modern English
deaf

deaf1 · adjective

Senses

  1. deaf

    Fif and twentiġ manna myslīċe ġeuntrume cōmon tō þām hālgan heora hǣle biddende; sum wǣron blinde, sume wǣron healte, sume ēac dēafe, and dumbe ēac sum and hī ealle wurdon ānes dæġes ġehǣlede þurh þæs hālgan þingunge and him hām ġewendon.

    Twenty-five men, sickened in various ways, came to the saint begging for the health; some were blind, some were lame, some were also deaf, and some were dumb, and they were all healed in one day through the intercession of the saint and went home.

    late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

Declension

Strong declension of deaf
MasculineFeminineNeuter
Singular
Nominative dēafdēafdēaf
Accusative dēafnedēafedēaf
Genitive dēafesdēafredēafes
Dative dēafumdēafredēafum
Instrumental dēafedēafredēafe
Plural
Nominative dēafedēafadēafedēaf
Accusative dēafedēafadēafedēaf
Genitive dēafradēafradēafra
Dative dēafumdēafumdēafum
Instrumental dēafumdēafumdēafum
Weak declension of deaf
MasculineFeminineNeuter
Singular
Nominative dēafadēafedēafe
Accusative dēafandēafandēafe
Genitive dēafandēafandēafan
Dative dēafandēafandēafan
Instrumental dēafandēafandēafan
Plural
Nominative dēafandēafandēafan
Accusative dēafandēafandēafan
Genitive dēafradēafenadēafradēafenadēafradēafena
Dative dēafumdēafumdēafum
Instrumental dēafumdēafumdēafum

deaf2 · verb · inflected form

Senses

  1. first/third-person singular past of dūfan

  2. Inflected form of dūfan

All forms (10)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *daub. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian dāf, Old Saxon dōf (Low German dow), Old High German toub (German taub), Old Norse daufr (Swedish döv). The Indo-European root is also the source of Greek τυφλός (tyflós, “blind”).

Descendants

deaf

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