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ge-wyrht

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Wright's OE grammar
§391;
Add: ge-wyrhtu, gewyrhto; f.
a work
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  • Dó á þætte duge. Deág þín gewyrhtu ; God þé bið symle góda gehwylces freá and fultum feónd þám óðrum wyrsan gewyrhta do ever what may profit. Your work will avail; God will always be a lord to help you in every-thing good, while he will be a foe to others whose works are worse, Fä. 4-7.

    Reddet Deus unicunque secundum opera sua

    ; þæt is on úre geþeóde: hé forgylt ánra gehwylcum æfter his ágenum gewyrhtum,
      Wlfst. 184, 9.

  • Gif gé scyld on eów witen ðæs ðe eów man tíhð oððe on gewyrhtum oððe on gewitnesse

    if you know yourselves guilty as principals or as accessories

    ,
      Rtl. 114, 23.

  • Be folcleásunge gewyrhtum. Gif mon folcleásunge gewyrce

    de publico mendacio conficto. Si quis publicum mendacium confingat

    ,
      Ll. Th. i. 80, 19.

  • Cwíðende cwicra gewyrhtu

    mourning the deeds done in the flesh

    ,
      Cri. 892.
desert, merit
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  • Æghwæðer ánfealde gewyrht wigeð each gets just what he deserves, Cri. 1578. ꝥ be þǽra (þǽre, MS.) cennendra gewyrhtum (-fyrhtum, MS.) þæs bearnes weorbe ongyten wǽre

    ut ex generantium meritis dignitas germinis nosceretur

    ,
      Bl. H. 163, 27.

  • Næs ǽnig mann swá mǽre þæt hé on án ne sceolde tó helle swá hé forðfaren wæs; and þæt wæs ǽrest for Adames gewyrhtum,

      Wlfst. 16, 15.

  • Þá þe be gewyrhtum (-gewyrhte, v. l.) áwyrgede wǽron

    qui merito maledicebantur

    .
      Bd. 4, 26 ; Sch. 505, 7.

  • Ic áreóse be gewyrhtum

    decidam merito

    ,
      Ps. Spl. 7, 4.

  • Þaelig-acute;r leán cumað werum bi gewyrhtum worda and dǽda

    these rewards will come to men according to their deserts for words and deeds

    ,
      Cri. 1368.

  • Geweorhtum,

      Met. 27, 27.

  • Hí þæs deóran hám wilniað bi gewyrhtum (

    as it deserves

    ),
      Gú. 41.

  • Gief hwá búton ge-wrihtum (without just cause) hit ábrecan wille, C. D. iii. 180, 22 : 262, 15. ¶ gewyrht(o) ágan

    to deserve

    (good or ill) :-- Hé þone gylt gebéte swá wer swá wíte, swá hé gewyrht áge,
      Ll. Th. i. 66, 13.

  • Hé mé sié árfæstra þonne ic wið hine gewyrht áge

    may he be more merciful to me than my conduct towards him deserves

    ,
      Angl. xi. 99, 91.

  • Þone ic wið hine geworht áge,

      102, 75.

  • Hé hæfde gewurðod þe þá gewyrhto áhton (

    those who deserved it

    ),
      Dan. 444.
Similar entries
v. ǽr-gewyrht, eald-gewyrht, fyrn-gewyrht, un-gewyrht.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-wyrht.” 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/50645.

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