"þafian" meaning in Old English

See þafian in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈθɑ.fi.ɑn/, [ˈθɑ.vi.ɑn]
Etymology: From Proto-Germanic *þabōną, from *þabaz (“fitting; appropriate”). Etymology templates: {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*þabōną}} Proto-Germanic *þabōną Head templates: {{ang-verb|þafian}} þafian Inflection templates: {{ang-conj|þafian<w2>}} Forms: weak [table-tags], þafian [infinitive], þafienne [infinitive], þafiġe [first-person, present, singular], þafode [first-person, past, singular], þafast [present, second-person, singular], þafodest [past, second-person, singular], þafaþ [present, singular, third-person], þafode [past, singular, third-person], þafiaþ [plural, present], þafodon [past, plural], þafiġe [present, singular], þafode [past, singular], þafiġen [plural, present], þafoden [past, plural], þafa [imperative, past, present, singular], þafiaþ [imperative, past, plural, present], þafiende [imperative, present], þafod [imperative, past], ġeþafod [imperative, past]
  1. to consent or agree to, to let happen or be done, to take up
    Sense id: en-þafian-ang-verb-z-iPc2fX Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 46 4 50
  2. to submit to, to suffer, to bear
    Sense id: en-þafian-ang-verb-mR85sGbY
  3. to bear with, to tolerate
    Sense id: en-þafian-ang-verb-9IVDoEYY Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 46 4 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 41 7 52 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 41 3 56
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: forberan, geþolian, geþyldan, geþyldigian, þolian, þwærlæcan, þafan, þeafian Derived forms: geþafa, geþafian, geþafung, þafung

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "geþafa"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "geþafian"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "geþafung"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "þafung"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "thaven"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: thaven",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: thaven"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*þabōną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *þabōną",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *þabōną, from *þabaz (“fitting; appropriate”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "2",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafian",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafienne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafiġe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafast",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafodest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafiaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafodon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafiġe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafiġen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafoden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafa",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafiaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafiende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġeþafod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "þafian"
      },
      "expansion": "þafian",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "þafian<w2>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 4 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Two things are prepared for you, both life and death as it best please you to choose; say at once which you are willing to consent to.",
          "roman": "Ðē sint tū ġearu, swā līf swā dēað, swā ðē lēofre biþ tō ġeċēosanne; cȳð riċene nū hwæt ðū ðæs tō þinge þafian wille.",
          "text": "9th century, \"Elene\", ll. 605-608",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "The clothing that he was divested of should be placed in the monastery to retain should he at some point by the inciting Devil agree to leave the minster.",
          "text": "10th century, \"The Old English Rule of St. Benedict\" Ch. LVIII. Cotton Tiberius A. iii, fol. 155a.\nÞā rēaf mid þām þe hē wæs unsċrīd bēon ġelōgodre on rægulhūse tō ġehealdenna æt suman ċyrre tihtendum dēofle ġif hē þafað þæt hē utgā of minstre.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to consent or agree to, to let happen or be done, to take up"
      ],
      "id": "en-þafian-ang-verb-z-iPc2fX",
      "links": [
        [
          "consent",
          "consent"
        ],
        [
          "agree",
          "agree"
        ],
        [
          "happen",
          "happen"
        ],
        [
          "take up",
          "take up"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, German Lexicon Project Ðé þincþ se earmra se ðæt yfel déþ ðonne se ðe hit þafaþ. ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "text": "Sum gewealden-mód þafaþ in geþylde ðæt hé sceal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to submit to, to suffer, to bear"
      ],
      "id": "en-þafian-ang-verb-mR85sGbY",
      "links": [
        [
          "submit",
          "submit"
        ],
        [
          "suffer",
          "suffer"
        ],
        [
          "bear",
          "bear"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 4 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 7 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 3 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, German Lexicon Project Hé ilde and ðafode ða scylda and ðeáh hé him gecýðde. ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "text": "Þatt Godd ne þole nohht ne þafe laþe gastess to winnenn oferrhannd off uss.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to bear with, to tolerate"
      ],
      "id": "en-þafian-ang-verb-9IVDoEYY",
      "links": [
        [
          "bear",
          "bear"
        ],
        [
          "tolerate",
          "tolerate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈθɑ.fi.ɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈθɑ.vi.ɑn]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "forberan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "geþolian"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "geþyldan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "geþyldigian"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "þolian"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "þwærlæcan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "þafan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "þeafian"
    }
  ],
  "word": "þafian"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Old English class 2 weak verbs",
    "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old English lemmas",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Old English terms with redundant head parameter",
    "Old English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "geþafa"
    },
    {
      "word": "geþafian"
    },
    {
      "word": "geþafung"
    },
    {
      "word": "þafung"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "thaven"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: thaven",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: thaven"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*þabōną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *þabōną",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *þabōną, from *þabaz (“fitting; appropriate”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "2",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafian",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafienne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafiġe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafast",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafodest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafiaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafodon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafiġe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafiġen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafoden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafa",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafiaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafiende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þafod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġeþafod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "þafian"
      },
      "expansion": "þafian",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "þafian<w2>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Two things are prepared for you, both life and death as it best please you to choose; say at once which you are willing to consent to.",
          "roman": "Ðē sint tū ġearu, swā līf swā dēað, swā ðē lēofre biþ tō ġeċēosanne; cȳð riċene nū hwæt ðū ðæs tō þinge þafian wille.",
          "text": "9th century, \"Elene\", ll. 605-608",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "The clothing that he was divested of should be placed in the monastery to retain should he at some point by the inciting Devil agree to leave the minster.",
          "text": "10th century, \"The Old English Rule of St. Benedict\" Ch. LVIII. Cotton Tiberius A. iii, fol. 155a.\nÞā rēaf mid þām þe hē wæs unsċrīd bēon ġelōgodre on rægulhūse tō ġehealdenna æt suman ċyrre tihtendum dēofle ġif hē þafað þæt hē utgā of minstre.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to consent or agree to, to let happen or be done, to take up"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "consent",
          "consent"
        ],
        [
          "agree",
          "agree"
        ],
        [
          "happen",
          "happen"
        ],
        [
          "take up",
          "take up"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of Old English quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, German Lexicon Project Ðé þincþ se earmra se ðæt yfel déþ ðonne se ðe hit þafaþ. ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "text": "Sum gewealden-mód þafaþ in geþylde ðæt hé sceal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to submit to, to suffer, to bear"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "submit",
          "submit"
        ],
        [
          "suffer",
          "suffer"
        ],
        [
          "bear",
          "bear"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of Old English quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, German Lexicon Project Hé ilde and ðafode ða scylda and ðeáh hé him gecýðde. ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "text": "Þatt Godd ne þole nohht ne þafe laþe gastess to winnenn oferrhannd off uss.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to bear with, to tolerate"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bear",
          "bear"
        ],
        [
          "tolerate",
          "tolerate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈθɑ.fi.ɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈθɑ.vi.ɑn]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "forberan"
    },
    {
      "word": "geþolian"
    },
    {
      "word": "geþyldan"
    },
    {
      "word": "geþyldigian"
    },
    {
      "word": "þolian"
    },
    {
      "word": "þwærlæcan"
    },
    {
      "word": "þafan"
    },
    {
      "word": "þeafian"
    }
  ],
  "word": "þafian"
}

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