dædbana
Old English
Etymology
dǣd + bana
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdæːdˌbɑ.nɑ/
Noun
dǣdbana m (nominative plural dǣdbanan)
- an evil-doer, a perpetrator of murder
- Gif man gehádodne mid fǽhþe belecge, and secge ðæt he wǽre dǽdbana ― if any one charge one in holy orders with enmity, and say that he was a perpetrator of homicide.
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “dædbana”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.