dafen

• *defen

Originally from the past participle of Proto-Germanic *dabaną (“to pass, happen, occur, fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₂ebʰ- (“appropriate, good, fitting”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.fen/, [ˈdɑ.ven]

dafen

1. becoming, fit, suitable, fitting, proper
2. convenient

• dafenlīċ (“fit, becoming, proper, suitable, right, convenient”)
• dafenlīċe (“fittingly, becomingly, properly, suitably, rightly, unconvenient”)
• dafenlīcnes (“fit time, opportunity, convenience”)
• ġedafen (“fit, becoming, proper, suitable, right, convenient”)
• ġedaflīċ
• unġedafenlīċ, unġedæftenlic (“improper, unseemly, unseasonable, inopportune, inconvenient, troublesome”)
• unġedafenlīċe, unġedæftlīċe (“unseasonably, inopportunely, inconveniently, improperly, unduly, unreasonably, unjustly, unsuitably”)
• unġedæftnes (“untimely intervention or interruption, inconvenience”)
• unġedafenlicnes (“unfitness, inconvenience”)

• dafenian, dafnian (“to beseem, befit, be right, to be convenient, be appropriate”)
• dēfe (“befitting, suitable, proper: meek, gentle, kindly”)

• John R. Clark Hall (1916), “dafen”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “dafen”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.