efneald

Meaning

1. of the same age

   Hē begann þā tō lufienne leahtras tō swīðe and fela unþēawa mid his efnealdum cneohtum.

   He began to fall in love with sin and engaged in many vices with boys his age [literally, “with his equally old boys”].

   c. 1005, Ælfric's Letter to Sigeweard

2. a peer

   Sē ēadega Cūðbeorht, þā þā hē wæs eahtawintre ċild, rann swā swā him his nytenlīċe ield tyhte plegende mid his efnealdum.

   The blessed Cuthbert, when he was an eight-year-old child, was running around like his innocent age urged him to do and playing with his peers.

   c. 992, Ælfric, “The Deposition of St. Cuthbert, Bishop”

Declension