frætwung
.
Searchable Lemmata: frætwung (OE), gefrætwung (OE).
Alternate Forms: frætewung, frætewunga, frætewunge, frætwunge, gefrætwunga, gefrætwungum.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1a(n.) ;
in general, the act of adorning or decorating. Used substantively to mean 'an adornment, ornament'.(ante 1100)
1. la hwæt, þæt gold & þæt seolfer & seo frætewung & eall þæt hi her on þisum middangearde æfter hym to lafe þurhwunode a.
Ecclesiastic/Regula.
[DOE Hom M 8 (47)]
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
1b(n.)
Jewellery;
referring to personal ornaments and jewellery: glossing Latin crepundium and lunula.(ante 1100)
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
2(n.)
Other;
in the phrase reafes frætwung ‘elegance of dress'; compare frætwednes sense 2 and cf. hrægelgefrætwodnes.(ante 1000 - ante 1100)
1. for þig gerist preostum þæt hig hyron þære halgan ealdorlicnysse ... and þæt hig gyrnon swiðor to scinenne an haligre drohtnunge and an æðelum þeawum þonne an reafes frætwunge (quam ornatu uestium fulgere).
Ecclesiastic/Regula.
[DOE ChrodR 1 (52.14) ante 1000]
Sex: Male Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, from the stem of gefrætwian 'to ornament' + -ung suffix used to form nouns of action from verbs.
WF: Derivation
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