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  • conjunction
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and, conj.
Wright's OE grammar
§560; §569; §654;
Add: , end
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  • Aend suilcae, end suilce

    atqueve,

      Txts. 42, 98.
introductory to a clause which is not preceded by one with which it can be connected
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  • Ðá cwæð Eustachius: 'And ne sǽde ic ꝥ wilde deór hí gelǽhton?',

      Hml. S. 30, 371.
connecting a subordinate clause or phrase with the principal clause, and so superfluous
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  • Mid þí þe hié gehýrdon þára sácerda ealdormen, and hié cwǽdon him betweónan,

      Bl. H. 239, 29.

  • Him þá gyt sprecendum and þá beorht wolcn hig ofer*-*sceán,

      Mt. 17, 5.
connecting coordinate clauses,
in which the subject of the second is the object of the first, but is not expressed;
and may be rendered by a relative
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  • Gemétte ic sumne man, and (

    and he, who

    ) mé þrý penegas sealde,
      Hml. S. 23 b, 490.

  • Ic geseah þǽr manige góde, and on Godes þeódscipe heora líf lǽddon,

      Guth. 70, 23.

  • Ic geseó Gddes engel standende ætforan ðé, and wepað ðíne limu,

      Hml. Th. i. 426, 30.
  • Ðá ábæd his fóstormódor án hridder, and tóbærst on emtwá, ii. 154, 16.
where the object of the second is that of the first, but is not expressed
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  • Hér Æþelburg tówearp Tántún and (þe, þone,

    v. ll.

    ). Íne ǽr timbrede,
      Chr. 722; P. 42, 23.
where
and = þæt
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  • Þá getímode hit ymbe twelf mónað æfter Agathes þrowunge, and Ethna up ábleów,

      Hml. S. 8, 222.
in clauses in which comparison is made,
as
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  • Gelíce and (

    quasi

    ) mon mǽd máwe, hié wǽron þá burg hergende,
      Ors. 2, 8; S. 92, 15.

  • Nú sió burg swelc is, gelíce and heó wǽre tó bisene ásteald,

      2, 4; S. 74, 24: 3, 7; S. 112, 29.

  • Ꝥ bið gelíc and eágan bót,

      Ll. Th. i. 94, 21.

  • Ne bið ná gelíc ꝥ man wið swustor gehǽme and hit wǽre feor sibb,

      404, 27.

  • Ꝥ cild þá gýtseras lǽton efenscyldig and hit gewittig wǽre,

      420, 2.

  • Hé wæs ǽfre efenmihtig and hé gyt is,

      Wlfst. 16, 7.

  • Ðú gelýfst þínum hláforde bet ðonne ðé selfum, and þínum géferum æmnwel and ðé selfum,

      Shrn. 196, 24.

  • Críst simle ánes willan wæs and God Fæder

    Filio hominis una semper cum Patre voluntas est,

      Past. 307, 8.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “and.” 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/38587.

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