adfyr

Old English

Etymology

From ād (“funeral pyre”) +‎ fȳr (“fire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːd.fyːr/, [ˈɑːd.vyːr]

Noun

ādfȳr n

1. (poetry, hapax legomenon) sacrificial fire, funeral fire

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	ādfȳr	ādfȳr
accusative	ādfȳr	ādfȳr
genitive	ādfȳres	ādfȳra
dative	ādfȳre	ādfȳrum

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ád-fýr”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.