heahfæder

Old English

Etymology

From hēah- + fæder.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hæːɑxfæder/

Noun

hēahfæder m

  1. a patriarch
  2. (theology) God the Father

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: heahfeder, hehfader

References

  • HĒAHFÆDER in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
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