innera
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Old English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Comparative of the preposition in. Cognate with Old Norse innri, Old Dutch innero, Old High German innaro, Old Frisian inra.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
innera (no positive form, superlative innemest)
- (literal or figurative) inner, interior
- 1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online
- Hē fērde forþ ofer þæt wæter in þā inneran land þǣra hǣþenra.
- He journeyed forth over the water into the heathens' interior lands.
- Se earma innera mann, þæt is sēo wēriġe sāwol.
- The poor inner man, that is the weary soul.
- Þēah hē mē þāra ūterrena ġewinna ġefrēode, þēah winnaþ wiþ mē þā inneran unrihtlustas.
- Though he has freed me from outward struggles, yet the inner unjust lusts strive with me.
- 1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online
Declension[edit]
Declension of innera — Weak only
Antonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “INNERA”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “INNERA supplementary input”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.