gehyrsum

Old English

Alternative forms

  • ġehīersum, ġehīrsum

Etymology

From ġe- +‎ hȳrsum. Cognate with Old High German gihōrsam (German gehorsam).

Adjective

ġehȳrsum

  1. obedient, ready to serve.

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

  • unġehȳrsum (“inattentive, unlistening”)

Descendants

References

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