gerefa
English
Noun
gerefa (plural gerefas)Category:English lemmas#GEREFACategory:English nouns#GEREFACategory:English countable nouns#GEREFACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GEREFACategory:Pages with entries#GEREFACategory:Pages with 2 entries#GEREFA
- (historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#GEREFA) A reeve or official with local jurisdiction under the king; the chief magistrate of a district.
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Allegedly from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#GEREFACategory:Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#GEREFA *garāfijō, but this is unlikely on phonological grounds, since the West Saxon form has /eː/ and the Northumbrian and Mercian forms have /øː/. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a connection to the second elements of seċġrōf and stæfrōf. By surface analysis, ġe- + rēfaCategory:Old English terms prefixed with ge-#REFA.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jeˈreː.fɑ/, [jeˈreː.vɑ]Category:Old English terms with IPA pronunciation#GEREFA
Noun
ġerēfa mCategory:Old English lemmas#GEREFACategory:Old English nouns#GEREFACategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#GEREFACategory:Old English masculine nouns#GEREFACategory:Pages with entries#GEREFACategory:Pages with 2 entries#GEREFA
- a reeve or official with local jurisdiction under the king; the chief magistrate of a district
- Laws of King Ine
- Ġif ġesīþcund mon fare, þonne mōt hē habban his ġerēfan mid him ⁊ his smiþ ⁊ his ċildfestran.
- If a noble man should move, then he may keep his reeve and his smith and his children's nurse with him.
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
- Sumes ġerēfan dohtor hē āhredde fram fefore þurh his ǣrendġewrit, þe hēo ādliġ underfeng.
- He freed a certain reeve's daughter from a fever with his written letter, which she received while sick.
- Laws of King Ine
Declension
Weak: