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máge

  • noun [ feminine ]
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máge, an; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§404;
A kinswoman
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  • Elizabeþ ðín mǽge (máge, MSS. A. B.)

    cognata tua,

    • Lk. Skt. 1, 36.
  • Seó cwén his máge

    regina propinqua illius,

    • Bd. 3, 24
    • ;
    • S. 557, 24.
  • Ða landes ðe hire máge hire geúþe,

    • Chart. Th. 338, 14: 337, 27.
  • From bearme ánre mágan,

    • Exon. 112 b
    • ;
    • Th. 430, 25
    • ;
    • Rä. 44, 14.
  • Grendles mágan

    (mother

    )

    gang,

    • Beo. Th. 2786
    • ;
    • B. 1391.
  • Be hire mágan (

    propinqua

    ),
    • Bd. 3, 8
    • ;
    • S. 531, 3.
  • Ne hǽme nán man wið his mágan ne wið his mǽges wíf,

    • Lev. 18, 16.
  • Se wolde niman his mágan

    (cousin

    )

    tó wífe,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 476, 19.
  • Menn hæfdon on frymþe heora mágan tó wífe,

    • Homl. Skt. 10, 215.
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v. mǽge, mága.
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v.  mǽge.
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