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geóguþ

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
geóguþ, geógeþ, giógoþ, geógaþ, gígoþ, iúguþ, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§116; §218; §268; §286; §390;
YOUTH, the state of being young; juventus, juvenilis ætas vel status
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  • Úre cnihthád is swylce undern-tíd, on ðam astíhþ úre geógoþ swá swá sunne déþ ymbe ðære ðriddan tíde

    our boyhood is as it were the third hour in which arises our youth as the sun does about the third hour,

      Homl. Th. ii. 76, 15: Elen. Kmbl. 2528; El. 1265.
  • Of mínre geóguþe

    a juventute mea,

      Mk. Bos. 10, 20: Blickl. Homl. 211, 26.
  • Ðǽr is geógoþ búton ylde

    there is youth without age,

      65, 17: Exon. 32 a; Th. 101, 6; Cri. 1654.
  • On geóguþe

    in youth,

    34 a;
      Th. 108, 19; Gú. 75: Ps. Th. 70, 4.
  • Hie on geógoþe bu wlitebeorht wǽron on woruld cenned

    they both in youth beautiful were born into the world,

      Cd. 10; Th. 12, 18; Gen. 187: Ps. Th. 118, 141.
  • On geógoþe

    in youth,

      Beo. Th. 4843; B. 2426.
  • From gígoþe mínum

    a juventute mea,

      Mk. Skt. Lind. 10, 20: Lk. Skt. Lind. 18, 21.
  • Se férde on his iúgoþe fram his freóndum

    he went in his youth from his friends,

      Swt. A. S. Rdr. 95, 3.
the youth, young persons; juventus, juvenes
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  • Eall sió gióguþ ðe nú is on Angelcynne all the youth now in England, Past. Pref; Swt. 7, 10; Hat. MS. Ðá wearþ iafeðe geógoþ aféded

    then to Japhet was a youthful offspring born,

      Cd. 78; Th. 96, 34; Gen. 1604.
  • Óððæt seó geógoþ geweóx

    until the youth grew up,

      Beo. Th. 133; B. 66.
  • Hyre byre Hréðríc and Hróðmund and hæleða bearn giógoþ ætgædere

    her sons Hrethric and Hrothmund and children of warriors, the youth together,

      2384; B. 1189: Cd. 176; Th. 220, 34; Dan. 81.
  • Helpe gefremman gumena geógoþe

    to give help to the young men of the people,

      Andr. Kmbl. 3228; An. 1617.
  • Duguþe and geógoþe

    to old and young,

      304; An. 152: Beo. Th. 323; B. 160.
  • Heora geóguþ

    juvenes eorum,

      Ps. Th. 77, 64.
  • Ic geseah míne gesǽlinesse and mín wuldor and ða fromnisse mínre iúguþe

    ego respiciens felicitatem meam insigni numero juventutis,

      Nar. 7, 22.
Etymology
[O. Sax. juguð: O. H. Ger. jugund: Ger. jugend.]
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v.  eógoþ.
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  • geóguþ, n.