heahfore

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

This first element of this word is customarily identified with hēah (tall, high), beginning with Franciscus Junius's 17th-century Etymologicum Anglicanum;[1][2] the remainder is now usually held to be from either faru (journey) or fearr (bull), though the latter is less likely.[3][4]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxæ͜ɑːx.fo.re/, [ˈhæ͜ɑːx.fo.re]

Noun

hēahfore f

  1. heifer

Declension

Descendants

References

  1. Franciſcus Junius Franciſcus filius (a. 1677) “Haifer”, in Edwardus Lye, editor, Etymologicum Anglicanum, Oxonia: Theatrum Sheldonianum, published 1743, page 249
  2. Alan Brown (1972) “Heifer”, in Neophilologus, volume 56, number 1, →DOI, pages 79–85
  3. James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Heifer”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes V (H–K), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 195, column 1.
  4. heifer”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  5. Anatoly Liberman (2008) “heifer”, in An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pages 101-5.
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