"færbu" meaning in Old English

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Noun

Etymology: This is a ghost word resulting from a misinterpretation of two words, fær (“movement, demeanour”) and bū (“both”), as one; the origin of which appears to be Samuel Fox's King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of Boethius, which Bosworth & Toller's An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary then cited. The sequence appears in the poetic verse "... habbað blīoh and fær bū unġelīċe" ("... (they) have appearance and demeanor, both unlike"), which would be metrically deficient, per the rules of Old English Meter, if bū were not part of the off verse and stressed such that it can alliterate with blīoh. In any case, færbu could not be the reflex, by regular sound change, of Proto-Germanic *farwō, whence German Farbe, the latter of which seems to be the basis of this misinterpretation. Etymology templates: {{cog|gem-pro|*farwō}} Proto-Germanic *farwō, {{cog|de|Farbe}} German Farbe Head templates: {{head|ang|nouns|||||g=?|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} færbu ?, {{ang-noun}} færbu ?
  1. Misspelling of fær bū. Tags: alt-of, misspelling Alternative form of: fær bū
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  2. (erroneous) hue, color
    Sense id: en-færbu-ang-noun-9IieylZa
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