eldertongue

Old English · adverb

geo

Part of speech
adverb
IPA
/juː/
Syllables
juː (1 syllable)

Meaning

  1. at some former time: once, before

    hrusan heolstre biwrāh, · ond iċ hēan þonan wōd winterċeariġ · ofer waþema ġebind,

    since once, long ago, covered my goldfriend(s) with darkness of earth, and poor I thereupon traveled sad as winter over binding of waves,

    siþþan ġeāra iū · goldwine mīn(n)e
  2. already

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *ju.

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