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hweorfan

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Wright's OE grammar
§500;
Add: p. hwearf, pl. hwurfon, hweorfon; pp. hworfen.
where there is motion from one place to another.
to move about, wander
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  • Þá gástas þe for Gode hweorfað,

      Gn. C. 59.

  • Lond-rihtes *-* mót monna ǽghwylc ídel hweorfan,

      B. 2888.

  • Holt hweorfende,

      Rä, 57, 3.

  • Hweorfende

    spatiantes,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 83, 74. (1 a) fig. of non-material objects :--
    Mín hyge hweorfeð ofer hreðer locan, mín módsefa. . . hweorfeð wíde, Seef. 58-60.
where the point to or from which motion is directed is marked.
of living creatures
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  • Hwiðer hweorfað wé (

    whither shall we turn

    ) . . . gif wé swícað þé ?,
      An. 405.

  • Hwearf hé tó healle swá hé hraðost meahte,

      Az. 166: Sat. 190.

  • Hwurfon hæleð geonge tó þám hǽðenan foran,

      Dan. 434.

  • Hé wæs miclum geswenced ǽr hé þanon hwurfe,

      Chr. 982 ; P. 124, 29.

  • Þú scealt hweorfan of earde þínum,

      Gen. 1018 : Wal. 81.

  • Hweorfan tó þis enge lond,

      Cri. 31.

  • Þider hweorfan, Dan. 203. ¶ with reflexive dative :-- Hé him siþþan hwearf tó Róme

    postea quam Romam venit,

      Ors. 5, 12 ; S. 242, 27.
of an inanimate object
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  • Þæt fýr scýde tó þám þe þá scylde worhton, hwearf (hweorf, MS. ) on þá hǽðenan hæftas fram þám hálgum cnihton, Dan. 267. (2 α) where the point to which is that from which motion originally took place,

    to return, go back

    :-- Gǽstas hweorfað in bánfatu,
      Ph. 519.

  • Hé siþþan hwearf hámweard tó Babylonia

    post Babyloniam rediit,

      Ors. 3, 9; S. 136, 3.

  • Paulinus huerf eft tó Cantwarum (hwearf eft tó Cent

    rediit Cantiam,

      Bd. 2, 20 ; Sch. 186, 24), Chr. 633 ; P. 24, 20.

  • Þá hwearf sé ána in tó him

    rediit ipse solus,

      Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 357, 21: 5, 19; Sch. 660, 22.

  • His geféran hwurfan tó cyricean

    sociis ad ecclesiam reuersis,

      4, 3 ; Sch. 352, 14.

  • Hwurfon wíf on willan

    the women returned with delight,

      Gen. 2086.

  • Gé nú eft hweorfað (hwurfað, v. l.) and biddað

    reuertentes dicite,

      Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 357, 8.

  • Þonne hé eft tó his éðle hweorfan (hwurfan, v. l.) wolde

    cum patriam reuerteretur,

      5, 19; Sch. 659, 23.

  • Wæs Maria eft hweorfende tó hire húse,

      Bl. H. 139, 3.
where the space through which or into which, or the line along which, motion is directed is given
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  • Mægen monna cynnes hweorfað on wídne lég,

      Cri. 958 : Gú. 784.

  • Hwearf heo bí bence,

      B. 1188.

  • Hæleða bearn sculon on þæt líg tó þé hweorfan,

      Gen. 754: Sat. 419. ¶ with reflex, dat. :--
    Wand hé him úp þanon, hwearf him þurh þá helldora, Gen. 447.
of the passage to the next world
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  • Gástas hweorfon, sóhtou swegles dreámas,

      An. 640.
of the course of events,
to proceed
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  • Gif seó wyrd swá hweorfan mót on yfelra manna gewill,

      Bt. 4; F. 8, 18.
to turn.
of persons, to
direct the mind to or from a person or subject
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  • Búton se mon hweorfe tó góde,

      Bt. 31, 2 ; F. 112, 28.

  • Lǽtaþ hine eft hweorfan tó minium lárum,

      3, 1; F. 4, 24.
of things,
to pass to or from the possession of a person
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  • Þonne þá þing hwám from hweorfende beóð, hé hí sceal mid þám mǽstan sáre his módes forlǽtan. . . And hý þé willaþ on murcnunga gebringan þonne hié þé fram hweorfaþ,

      Bt. 7, 2 ; F. 18, 16-20.
to change (intrans. and trans. )
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  • Swáhit oft gesǽleð on þǽm sélran þingum þæt seó wyrd and sió hiów hié oft oncyrreð and on óþer hworfeð

    ut aliquid plerumgue in secundis rebus fortana obstrepit

    ,
      Nar. 7, 28.
  • Hiǽ weorfaþ heora andwliotu. Mt. R. 6. 16.

  • Se móna is ǽfre se ylca þeáh ðe his leóht gelómlíce hweorfe,

      Lch. iii. 242, 16.

  • Hweorfende versicolor (versiculos, MS. but the passage is:

    Versicolor

    penna pavonis,
      Ald. 142, 22), Wrt. Voc. ii. 89, 59. v. and-(B. 548),
    eft-hweorfan, for-hweorfan, ymb-hweorfan; sin-hweorfende; mis-hworfen, níw-hworfen.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hweorfan.” 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/53546.

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