Noun: weorþnes
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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An. DCCCLV Hēr hǣþene men ǣrest on Sċeapiġġe ofer winter sǣtan...⁊ þȳ ilcan ġēare [Aþelwulf cing] ferde to Rōme mid myċelre weorðnesse ⁊ þǣr wæs XII mōnoð wuniġende, ⁊ him þā hāmweard fōr ⁊ him þā Carl Francna cing his dohtor ġēaf him tō cwēne, ⁊ æfter þām tō his lēodum cōm... (Year 855 In this year the heathens stayed on Sheppey over the winter for the first time...And in the same year [King Athelwulf] went to Rome with great honor, and stayed there for twelve months. And them he went home and King Carl [the Bald] of the Franks gave him his daughter as a queen, and after that Athelwulf returned to his people.)
Nouns inflected like weorþnes
woestenis,
sidefulnes,
anbyrdnes,
anbyrdnys,
orsorgnes,
slæcnes,
forlorenes,
bealdnes,
efennes,
æþelnes,
strangnes,
wynsumnes,
nytwyrþnes,
weorþnes,
unsehtnes,
unæþelnes,
æfweardnes,
unwynsumnes,
sweartnes,
wearrihtnes, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
By surface analysis, weorþ (“worth, deserving”) + -nes
Translations