WITNESS / 508
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 508
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED reports the edited Old English line. No manuscript object was directly inspected, and the record does not claim first use or an exact composition year.
Old EnglishOld English, source-reportedestablished
frēond
Beowulf, Heorot filled with friends
“Heorot innan wæs freondum afylled”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- Not fixed
- LOCATOR
- Meaning A.1a; Beowulf 1018
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERfriend ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 1311 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Oxford English Dictionary — friend, n. & adj.
- AUTHOR
- Oxford English Dictionary editors
- YEAR
- 2013
- PUBLISHER
- Oxford University Press
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- oed-friend