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to fasten.pst.3sg

Lemma: befæstan "to fasten" (oe-past-3sg)

befæstan

V (v-weak-1)

to fasten, make fast, fix

Attested in Ælfric's Lives of Saints - Saint Eugenia (befæste)

originates from: PWGmc *bifastijan "to make fast, secure" (bifastijan > bifæstijan > bifæstjan > bifestjan > bifestan) through pwgmc-to-oe
Inflected forms
befæste "to fasten.pst.3sg" (oe-past-3sg)
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