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oððe

  • conjunction
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oððe, conj. I.
Wright's OE grammar
§301; §560;
or
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  • Gif seó offrung beó of sceápon oððe of gátum,

      Lev. 1. 10.

  • Geeácnode ic hig ealle oððe ácende ic hig,

      Num. 11, 12.
  • Hwá geworhte mannes múþ oððe hwá geworhte dumne oððe deáfne and blindne oððe geseóndne? Ex. 4, 11.

  • Ia.

    in conjunction with

    óðóðer :-- Hí woldon óðer twega, líf forlǽtan oððe leófne gewercan,
      Byrht. Th. 137, 59; By. 207; Wald. 1, 16.
oððe...oððe...either.
..or
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  • Oðða (oððe, MS. B.) mid freóndscipe oðða mid gefeohte

    vel amicitia vel ferro,

      Bd. 1, 1; S. 474, 26.

  • Ðonne fóron hié oððe mid oððe on heora healfe,

      Chr. 894; Erl. 90, 6.

  • Ða scipu eall oððe tóbrǽcon oððe forbærndon oððe tó Lundenbyrig brohton oððe to Hrófesceastre,

      Erl. 91, 25.
with óðer, áðer
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  • Hé sǽde ðæt hé wolde óðer, oððe ðǽr libban oððe ðǽr licgan,

      901; Erl. 96, 32.

  • Hét ðæt hié óðer sceolden, oððe ðæt lond æt him álésan, oððe hé hié wolde fordón,

      Ors. 1, 10; Swt. 44, 9: 44, 21.

  • Hié óðer forleósan woldon, oððe hira ágen líf oððe Porsennes,

      2, 3; Swt. 68, 28.

  • Nú ðonne óðer twega, oððe ðara nán nis, oððe hí nánne weorþscipe nabbaþ,

      Bt. 27, 4; Fox 100, 16.

  • Gif onfunden biþ ðæt héáðer oððe... oððe...,

      L. E. I. 16; Th. ii. 412, 11.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “oððe.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/25083.

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