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sígan

  • verb
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Wright's OE grammar
§490;
to sink.
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  • Se beám wæs áhyld on áne healfe ꝥ man eáðe mihte witan hwider hé sígan wolde, Hml. S. 31, 409. I a.

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    :-- Seó sunne sáh tó setle,
      Hml. S. 23, 246.
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  • Þá sáh him on ꝥ cyrlisce folc swíðe wédende (cf. gearn mycel menigeo tó him and ealle swíðe erre wǽron, Bl. H. 223, 5), Hml. S. 31, 466. Bellatores . . . healdað úrne eard wið þone sígendne here, Ælfc. T. Grn. 20, 24. II a.

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    :-- Geríst hyt ꝥ seó tíd hæbbe mearke hwænne heó tó síge kyningum and crístenum folce tó wurðfulre blisse,
      Angl. viii. 326, 13.
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  • Ꝥ him síge ꝥ blód út þurh þone múð,

      Verc. Först. 110, 10.
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v. be-, tó-sígan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sígan.” 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/58076.

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