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  • adjective
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Wright's OE grammar
§306; §556;
Subst. or adj. Add:
as subst.
with partitive genitive sing., something in addition, an additional quantity or
amount
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  • Ne wilnige ic heora nánes náwyt mycle má ðonne ic néde sceol habban tó mýnes líchaman héle. Solil. H. 37, 11.

  • Ne wé wítegan habbað þæt ús andgytes má ǽfre secgan,

      Ps. Th. 73, 9.
a greater number, more individuals of the kind specified,
with partitive genitive plural (or of noun of multitude)
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  • Næs his folces ná má ofslagen þonne nigon,

      Ors. 4, 1 ; S. 156, 24.

  • Þ ǽr biþ wundra má þonne hit ǽnig mæg áþencean,

      Cri. 989.

  • Februarius hæfð þý geáre

    (leap-year)

    ánum dæge má daga þonne þý óðrum geáre,
      Angl. viii. 305, 43.

  • Hé áferede mancynnes má þonne gemet wǽre,

      An. 1180.
without partitive genitive
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  • Gif má tó scyle,

      Ll. Th. i. 160, 3.
  • .xii. búton gé má willan,
      274, 11.

  • Sý hit ofer áne scíre, sý hit ofer má,

      224, 27.

  • Þú hæfst mé manega bysna gereihte, and ic hæbbe sælf gesegen on bócum má þonne ic áreccan mage,

      Solil. H. 66, 13.
to express an indefinite excess over a number stated approximately
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  • Sume habbað twá oþþe má. Ll. Th. i. 316, 9: 438, 13.

  • Twá hund oððe má,

      El. 634: Ælfc. Gr. Z. 32, 16.
other individuals of the kind specified, other persons or things in addition to those mentioned
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  • Ꝥ unriht álegde úre hlaford; ꝥ hé má móte. Ll. Lbmn. 244, 36.

  • Þæt hé menige tó þám ilcan wuda þǽr ic ðás sceaftas cearf fetige hym þár má,

      Solil. H. 1. 11.

  • Hwæt wille ic má cwæðan ?,

      37, 6. (3a) with gen. :--
    For þǽm hé ne úþe þæt ǽnig má folca for his þingum forwurde þonne hé self mid his ágenre þeóde, Ors. 2, 5; S. 80, 33.

  • Ge londum ge on má ðára þinga ðe heó on forhaldne wéran,

      C. D. v. 140, 15.

  • Ic wæs on ceóle and mínes cnósles má,

      Rä. 19, 4.
as adj.v. Dict.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “má.” 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/54902.

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