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þunian

  • verb [ weak ]
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þunian, p. ode.
to stand out, be prominent, be lifted up, stick up
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  • On ðam forman dæge on ðam middangeard þunaþ gesceapen

    primo dierum quo mundus extat conditus,

    • Hymn. Surt. 4, 4.
  • Þunie (þu me, Th.) him gewinnes wearn ofer wealles hróf

    may much strife be lifted up for it above the top of its wall;

    circumdabit eam super muros ejus iniquitas,

    • Ps. Th. 54, 9.
  • Hié gesáwon fyrd wegan ... þúfas þunian

    they saw the host march ... saw the standards lift their tops above the ranks,

    • Cd. Th. 187, 32
    • ;
    • Exod, 158.
  • Þindan and þunian, þecene hebban,

    • Exon. Th. 431, 17
    • ;
    • Rä. 46, 2.
fig to be lifted up, be proud, cf. colloquial to be stuck up :
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  • -- Wǽre ðú (the body ) ðé wiste wlanc, þrymful ðunedest,

    • Soul Kmbl. 79
    • ;
    • Seel. 40.
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v. on-þunian, and cf. þennan.
to make a noise, to sound, resound, creak
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  • Ic( a storm ) ástíge strong, þrymful þunie,

    • Exon. Th. 380, 42
    • ;
    • Rä. 2, 4.
  • Sundwudu þunede

    the ship's timbers creaked,

    • Beo. Th. 3817
    • ;
    • B. 1906.
  • Þunode oððe hleóþrede

    increpuerit,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 44, 14.
  • Dynedan and þunedan

    crepitabant,

    • 21, 17.
  • Mere thundendan (thuniendan? but cf.(?) Icel. Þundr a name of Odin; Þund the name of a mythical river)

    bombosae (vocis mugitum),

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 77, 59.
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v. tó-þuniende, þunung, ge-þun, þunor, and cf. Lat. tonare, tonitrus.
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v.  tó-þuniende þundende.
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