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Old English · adverb

yfele

Part of speech
adverb
IPA
/ˈy.fe.le/
[ˈy.ve.le]
Syllables
ˈy · fe · le (3 syllables)
Modern English
badlyevillywickedly

yfele1 · adverb

Senses

  1. badly

    Līfes bōc and þrōwunge Sancte Anastase martyre, sēo wæs yfele of Crēċisċe on Lǣden ġehwierfdu and ġīet wiers fram sumum unġetȳdum ġeryhtu, iċ ġeryhte swā swā iċ meahte.

    A book on the life and passion of Saint Anastasius, which was poorly translated from Greek to Latin by some illiterate person and then revised even worse, I corrected as well as I could.

    late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

  2. evilly, wickedly

yfele2 · noun · inflected form

Senses

  1. dative singular of yfel

  2. Inflected form of yfel

Etymology

yfel + -e

Descendants

evil

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