See eald on Wiktionary
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7
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4,
7
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],
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"translation": "Year 964 In this year King Edgar drove the priests in Chester out of the old monastery, and (out of) the new one, and of Chertsey and Middleton. He replaced them with monks and appointed Abbot Athelgar to the new monastery, Ordbright to Chertsey, and Kinward to Middleton.",
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10
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"1": "",
"2": "ieldra",
"3": "ieldest"
},
"expansion": "eald (comparative ieldra, superlative ieldest)",
"name": "ang-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "eald"
},
"name": "ang-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old English terms with quotations",
"Old English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
3,
7
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
4,
7
]
],
"english": "How old are you?",
"text": "Hū eald eart þū?",
"translation": "How old are you?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I tell thee: she was sixty-three years old when she died",
"text": "The Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn\nIc þē secge, hēo wæs iii and sixtiġ ġēara eald, ðā hēo belȳfen wæs",
"translation": "I tell thee: she was sixty-three years old when she died",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Year 964 In this year King Edgar drove the priests in Chester out of the old monastery, and (out of) the new one, and of Chertsey and Middleton. He replaced them with monks and appointed Abbot Athelgar to the new monastery, Ordbright to Chertsey, and Kinward to Middleton.",
"text": "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle\nAn. DCCCCLXIIII Hēr drǣfde Ēadgār cyng þā preostas on Ċeastre of ealdan mynstre, ⁊ nīwan mynstre, ⁊ of Ċeortesiġe, ⁊ of Middeltūne, ⁊ sette hȳ mid munecan, ⁊ hē sette Æðelgār abbod tō nīwan mynstre tō abbode, Ordbriht to Ċeortesiġe, ⁊ Cyneweard to Middeltūne.",
"translation": "Year 964 In this year King Edgar drove the priests in Chester out of the old monastery, and (out of) the new one, and of Chertsey and Middleton. He replaced them with monks and appointed Abbot Athelgar to the new monastery, Ordbright to Chertsey, and Kinward to Middleton.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"old"
],
"links": [
[
"old",
"old"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Old English terms with quotations",
"Old English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
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[
3,
9
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
3,
10
]
],
"english": "in ancient times (literally “in olden days”)",
"text": "on ealdum dagum",
"translation": "in ancient times (literally “in olden days”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The Ancient Romans, in the heathen days, would have begun the year's course on this day.",
"text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Octaves and Circumcision of Our Lord\"\nÞā ealdan Rōmāne, on hǣðenum dagum, ongunnon þæs ġēares ymbryne on þissum dæġe.",
"translation": "The Ancient Romans, in the heathen days, would have begun the year's course on this day.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"ancient"
],
"links": [
[
"ancient",
"ancient"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Old English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
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0,
4
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],
"english": "the continental Saxons (literally “Old/Original Saxons”, contrasted with the Saxons who migrated to Great Britain)",
"text": "Ealdseaxan",
"translation": "the continental Saxons (literally “Old/Original Saxons”, contrasted with the Saxons who migrated to Great Britain)",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"original"
],
"links": [
[
"original",
"original"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(in compounds) original"
],
"tags": [
"in-compounds"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Old English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "grandfather",
"literal_meaning": "old father",
"text": "eald fæder",
"translation": "grandfather",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "grandmother",
"text": "eald modor",
"translation": "grandmother",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"grand-"
],
"links": [
[
"grand-",
"grand-"
]
],
"qualifier": "kinship",
"raw_glosses": [
"(kinship) grand-"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/æ͜ɑld/"
},
{
"ipa": "[æ͜ɑɫd]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æ͜ɑld"
}
],
"word": "eald"
}
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