gehæftan

== Old English == === Etymology === By surface analysis, ġe- +‎ hæftan === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /jeˈxæf.tɑn/, [jeˈhæf.tɑn] === Verb === ġehæftan to take captive The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to bind to detain ==== Conjugation ==== === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ge-hæftan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.