yfele
Middle English
Old English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈy.fe.le/, [ˈy.ve.le]
Adverb
yfele (comparative wiers, superlative wierrest)
- badly
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
- Līfes bōc and þrōwunge Sancte Anastase martyre, sēo wæs yfele of Crēċisċe on Lǣden ġehwierfdu and ġīet wiers fram sumum unġetȳdum ġeryhtu, iċ ġeryhte swā swā iċ meahte.
- A book on the life and passion of Saint Anastasius, which was poorly translated from Greek to Latin by some illiterate person and then revised even worse, I corrected as well as I could.
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
- evilly, wickedly
Synonyms
- untela
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