gear

Meaning

1. year

2. The Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn

   Ic þē secge, hēo wæs iii and sixtiġ ġēara eald, ðā hēo belȳfen wæs...

   I tell thee, she was three and sixty years old when she died...

3. c. 9-12 CE, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

4. c. 9-12 CE, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Þis wæs fēorþes ġēares his rīċes This was in the fourth year of his reign.; Þis wæs fēorþes ġēares his rīċes

5. c. 9-12 CE, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Þis wæs fēorþes ġēares his rīċes This was in the fourth year of his reign.; This was in the fourth year of his reign.

6. late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Sebastian, Martyr"

   Þa wurdon hi ealle þurh þæt wundor ablicgede and þæs þægnes gebedda ðe þa gebroþra heold wæs for six gearum for swiðlicre untrumnysse...

   Then they were all astonished at that miracle; and the wife of the officer, who had charge of the brothers, for six years, through a severe sickness...

7. age, years old (+plural genitive)

   Þa wolde his fæder and his frynd ealle þæt he wifian sceolde þa ða he eahtetyne gæra wæs...

   Then his father desired, and all his friends likewise, that he should marry, when he was eighteen years old.

   late 10th century, Ælfric, "Passion of St. Julian and his Wife Basilissa"

8. harvest

9. the runic character (/j/)

   byþ gumena hiht þon God lǣteþ...

   Spring is the hope of men when God...

   The Old English rune poem

Declension