oferfroren
Old English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈo.ferˌfro.ren/, [ˈo.verˌfro.ren]
Adjective
oferfroren
- frozen over
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- Þā wæs Donua sēo ēa swā swīþe oferforen, þæt hīe ġetruwedon þæt hīe ofer þām īse faran mehten, ac hīe mǣst ealle þǣr forwurdon.
- Then the River Danube was so thickly frozen over that they thought they could travel over the ice, but most all of them perished there.
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “oferfroren”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.