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wánung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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wánung, e ; f.
Wailing, lamentation
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  • Wánung

    threnum,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 28, 20.

  • Ðǽr (

    in hell

    ) is wánung and gránung and á singal sorh,
      Wulfst. 26, 8.

  • Hǽðenra gránung and reáfera wánung,

      186, 13.

  • Wóp and wánung and heófung and endeleás cwylming,

      Homl. Th. i. 592, 16.

  • Geóm*-*rung and wánung,

      Homl. Skt. i. 23, 104.

  • Se lǽce cyrfð oððe bærnð, and se untruma hrýmð, þeáhhwæðere ne miltsaþ hé ðæs óðres wánunge, Homl. Th. i. 472, 16.

    Uae

    getácnaþ hwílon wánunge,
      Ælfc. Gr. 48; Zup. 278, 12.

  • Gesaeh ðæt wánung

    (tumultum)

    and woepende and mǽni*-*ende,
      Mk. Skt. Lind. 5, 38.

  • Se áfunde his hláford licgan heáfodleásne and hé ðá mid wánunge wende út ongeán

    videns cadaver absque capite Holofernis exclamavit voce magna cum fletu,

    Anglia x.
      101, 365.

  • Mid hreówlícere wánunge,

      Homl. Th. i. 466, 33.
Etymology
[Heui is his greoning and seorhful is his woaning, Fragm. Phlps. 5, 35. Wanung and wow, O. E. Homl. i. 173, 231. After al þis cumeð of þat bearn iboren þus wanunge and wepnunge, H. M. 37, 9. Þer wes muchel waning, heortne graning, Laym. 17796. Wop and wonynge and bymenynge, Mirc. 74, 55. Þu telst . . . al mi (the owl's) reorde is woning, O. and N. 311.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wánung.” 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/34689.

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