See delfan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"plural",
"present"
]
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"source": "conjugation",
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"english": "Ants are born there as big as dogs. They have feet like grasshoppers, and are red and black in color. The ants dig gold up from the earth from before the night until the fifth hour of the day.",
"text": "Wonders of the East\nÞǣr beoð akende ǣmættan swā miċle swā hundas. Hī habbað fēt swylċe græshoppan, hī syndon rēades hīwes ⁊ blaces. Þā ǣmettan delfað gold up of eorðan fram foran nihte ōþ þa fīftan tīd dæġes.",
"translation": "Ants are born there as big as dogs. They have feet like grasshoppers, and are red and black in color. The ants dig gold up from the earth from before the night until the fifth hour of the day.",
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"Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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"english": "to dig around, bury",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
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},
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"plural"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"present",
"singular"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"lang": "Old English",
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{
"english": "Ants are born there as big as dogs. They have feet like grasshoppers, and are red and black in color. The ants dig gold up from the earth from before the night until the fifth hour of the day.",
"text": "Wonders of the East\nÞǣr beoð akende ǣmættan swā miċle swā hundas. Hī habbað fēt swylċe græshoppan, hī syndon rēades hīwes ⁊ blaces. Þā ǣmettan delfað gold up of eorðan fram foran nihte ōþ þa fīftan tīd dæġes.",
"translation": "Ants are born there as big as dogs. They have feet like grasshoppers, and are red and black in color. The ants dig gold up from the earth from before the night until the fifth hour of the day.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"to dig"
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},
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"to mine"
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}
],
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},
{
"ipa": "[ˈdeɫ.vɑn]"
}
],
"word": "delfan"
}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Old English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-04-01 using wiktextract (4d423fd and 9452535). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.