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on-weg

  • adverb
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on-weg, adv.
Wright's OE grammar
§15; §557;
Away, off.
with verbs of motion
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  • Óðer þing wiston ða wífmenn ðá hý onweg cyrdon

    when they went away (from the sepulchre ),

      Exon. Th. 460, 13; Hö. 16.

  • Gif ðú onweg cymest

    if you come away (alive from the fight ),

      Beo. Th. 2769; B. 1382.

  • Féran onweg,

      Exon. Th. 373, 4; Seel. 103.

  • Onweg (áweg) fleon,

      Ors. 4, 2; Bos. 79, 15: Bd. 4, 22; S. 591, 11.

  • Onweg gewítan,

      Blickl. Homl. 117, 1.

  • Onweg hweorfan,

      Beo. Th. 534; B. 264.

  • Hé onweg ðanon feorhlástas bær,

      1693; B. 844.
with verbs of taking, removing, separating, etc.
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  • Onweg áceorfan

    amputare,

      Ps. Spl. T. 118, 39.

  • Onweg ádon

    to put away,

      Bd. 3, 1; S. 524, 3.

  • Onweg ádrífan

    to drive away, expel,

      2, 5; S. 507, 28.

  • Onweg áhebban

    to remove,

      1, 27; S. 493, 7.

  • Onweg álǽdan,

      5, 3; S. 616, 36.

  • Onweg ániman,

      Blickl. Homl. 55, 9.

  • Onweg áteón

    to withdraw, subtract,

      Bd. 4, 17; S. 586, 9.
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v. á-weg.
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v.  an-weg a-weg.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-weg.” 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/24840.

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