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hnáh

  • adjective
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hnáh, adj.
Bent down, low, lowly, humble, abject, mean, poor
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  • And hé hnáh tó eorþan áleát wið ðæs engles

    adoravitque eum pronus in terram,

      Num. 22, 31.

  • Næs hió hnáh ne tó gnéþ gifa

    she was not mean nor too sparing of gifts,

      Beo. Th. 3863; B. 1929.

  • Iudas cwæþ ðæt hé wénde him trage [Kmbl. þrage] hnágre

    Judas said that he expected for himself humiliating pain,

      Elen. Kmbl. 1333; El. 668.

  • Wéndon hie wera cwealmes þræge hnágran

    they expected the death of men, a still worse time,

      Andr. Kmbl. 3195; An. 1600.

  • Nó ic me hnágran talige ðonne Grendel hine

    I think myself no worse man than does Grendel himself,

      Beo. Th. 1359; B. 677.

  • Ful oft ic leán teohhode hnáhran rince sǽmran æt sæcce

    full oft have I appointed reward to a warrior inferior and of less worth in battle,

      1909; B. 952.
Etymology
[Goth. hnaiws lowly, humble.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hnáh.” 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/19354.

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