HUND
- noun [ masculine ]
Grammar
Wright's OE grammar
§21;
§34;
§111;
§159;
§231;
§238;
§242;
§246;
§335;
§447;
A HOUND,
a dog; applied to persons as a term of abuse in English
and in other dialects
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Ðá hé ðider com ðá sceolde cuman ðære helle hund ongeán hine ðæs nama wæs Ceruerus
when he came thither, it is said, that then the dog of hell, whose name was Cerberus, came towards him,
- Bt. 35, 6 ;
- Fox 168, 15.
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Wið hundes slite
for the bite of a dog,
- Herb. 177, 2 ;
- Lchdm. i. 310, 8.
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Of ðæs hundes handa
de manu canis,
- Ps. Th. 21, 18.
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Ðone hǽðenan hund
the heathen dog [Holofernes ],
- Judth. 10 ;
- Thw. 23, 7 ;
- Jud. 110.
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Swá hundas
ut canes,
- Ps. Th. 58, 6.
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Dumbe hundas
canes muti,
- Past. 5, 1 ;
- Swt. 89, 17.
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Hunda gebeorc
barking of dogs,
- Ælfc. Gr. 1 ;
- Som. 2, 35.
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Nys hit ná gód ðæt man nime bearna hláf and hundum worpe
non est bonum sumere panem filiorum et mittere canibus,
- Mt. Kmbl. 15, 26.
Etymology
Goth. hunds
:
O. Sax. O. Frs. hund
:
Icel. hundr
:
O. H. Ger. hunt
:
Ger. hund.
]
Derived forms
Linked entries
v.
hundred hund-teóntig.
Entry information
Citation
Bosworth, Joseph. “HUND.” 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/19917.
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