wordfæst

Old English

FWOTD – 24 June 2014

Alternative forms

Etymology

From word + -fæst.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwordfæst/

Adjective

wordfæst

  1. true to one's word, keeping one's word

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: weordfeste

References

  • Bosworth, Joseph. "word-fæst." An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth. Ed. Thomas Northcote Toller. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898. 1265.
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