earfoþe

Etymology
From, from , from a verb ,.

Compare 🇨🇬. See also 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) work; labour
 * 2) suffering; hardship
 * 3) labour; pains; trouble; childbirth
 * 4) disease

Adjective

 * 1) hard, difficult
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The Assumption of St. John the Apostle"
 * "ang"

- Iohannes þa gegaderode ðæra gymstana bricas, and beseah to heofonum, þus cweðende, "Drihten Hælend, nis ðe nan ðing earfoðe; þu ge-edstaðelodest ðisne tobrocenan middangeard on þinum geleaffullum, þurh tácen þære halgan rode; ge-edstaðela nu þas deorwurðan gymstanas, ðurh ðinra engla handa, þæt ðas nytenan menn þine mihta oncnāwon, and on þe gelyfon."