steorfa

Middle English

Noun

steorfa (uncountable)

Alternative form of steorve

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sterbō, from Proto-Germanic *sterbô; compare steorfan.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈste͜or.fɑ/, [ˈste͜orˠ.vɑ]

Noun

steorfa m

pestilence, mortality
dead animals and their flesh
dead things and their places of death

Declension

Declension of steorfa (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	steorfa	steorfan
accusative	steorfan	steorfan
genitive	steorfan	steorfena
dative	steorfan	steorfum

Synonyms

cwealm n (“death”)
strīċ n (“plague”)

Derived terms

fǣrsteorfa m (“pestilence”)

Related terms

cwelan (“to die”)
cwellan (“to kill”)
ġecwylman (“to torment”)
pīnian (“to torture”)
steorfan (“to die”)
sūsl f (“torment”)
tintregian (“to afflict”)
tūcian (“to harass”)
wīte n (“punishment”)
wreccan (“to twist or torment”)

Descendants

Middle English: steorve, steorfa, storve, sterve (early)

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “steorfa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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