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pening

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
pening, penning, pending, penig, pennig, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§60; §290; §291;
A penny
referring to other than English coinage
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  • Ðes peningc (pening, penig)

    hic as,

      Ælfc. Gr. 9, 25; Zup. 50, 14.
  • Fals pening

    paracaraximus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 57, 34.
  • Penninge

    hymenis

    (?), ii.
      96, 71.
  • Peninge,

      43, 27.
  • Bringaþ mé ðone pening (

    denarium

    ),
      Mk. Skt. 12, 15.
  • Ðá brohton hí him ǽnne peninc (penig,

      MS. A. : penning, Lind.), Mt. Kmbl. 22, 19.
  • Hé sealde ǽlcon ǽnne penig (penning, Lind.) ... Ðá onféngon hig ǽlc his pening (suindrigo penningas, Lind.) ... syadrige penegas

    singulos denarios,

      20, 2-10.
  • Pening,

      Homl. Th. ii. 78, 27.
  • Mé sind wana penegas

    desunt mihi nummi,

      Ælfc. Gr. 32; Som. 36, 37.
  • Wé eác wiernaþ úrum cildum úrra peninga mid tó plegianne

    pueris nummos subtrahimus,

      Past. 50, 4; Swt. 391, 27.
  • Hig sealdon hine wið þrítigum penegum,

      Gen. 37, 28.
of English coinage, a silver coin, the 240th part of a pound
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  • Fíf penegas gemaciaþ ǽnne scillingc, and xxx. penega ǽnne mancs,

      Ælfc. Gr. 50; Som. 52, 8.
  • Gá seó wǽge wulle tó .cxx. p. (tó healfan punde,

      MS. G.), L. Edg. ii. 8; Th. i. 270, 3.
  • Tén hund (pund?) peñd ... Gedǽle hé ǽlcum Godes þiówe peñd ... þreóténe hund (pund ?) pending,

      Chart. Th. 471, 5-26. xiii. pund pendingæ, 474. 9.
  • Mid .v. pundum mǽrra pæninga (

    denarii meri

    ),
      L. Alf. pol. 3 ; Th. i. 62, 10.
  • Gif mon men eáge of ásleá, geselle him mon .lx. sciłł. and .vi. sciłł. and .vi. pæningas and þriddan ðǽl pæningas (peniges,

      MS. H.) tó bóte, 47; Th. i. 94. 3-5.
  • Hire mægþhádes wurð, ðæt synd twelf scillingas be twelf penigon (cf. Se rihtscylling byþ á be .xii. penegum

    legitimus solidus semper est .xii. denariorum,

      L. Ecg. P. iv. 60; Th. ii. 222, 7), Ex. 21, 10.
as a weight,
pennyweight
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  • Án

    uncia

    stent on feówer and twentig penegum. Twelf síðon twelf penegas beóþ on ánum punde, Anglia viii.
      335. 17.
  • Pund ealoþ gewihþ .vi. penegum máre ðonne pund wætres, and .i. pund wínes gewihþ .xv. penegum máre ðonne .i. pund wætres, etc.,

      Lchdm. ii. 298, 16-26.
  • Gegníd on mortere ðæne pening gewege,

      18, 3: 134, 25.
  • Swylce swá .iii. penegas gewegen,

      52, 13: 110, 17.
  • Wið lúsum ; cwic seolfor, án pening seolfres,

      124, 24.
  • Drenc biþ on peninge

    the dose will be a pennyweight,

      272, 24.
  • Ceorf nygan penegas

    cut up nine pennyweights,

    iii.
      8, 2.
  • Man ðysses wyrttruman genime týn penega gewihte, i. 260, 17.
  • Hý man wegeþ, swá man déþ gold wið penegas, and gif ða penegas teóþ swíðor ðonne ðæt gold, ðonne miswyrþ ðam men hraðe,Wulfst. 240, 2-4.
Etymology
[O. L. Ger. penning : O. Frs. panning : O. H. Ger. pfenning, pfenting: Icel. penningr.]
Similar entries
v. ælmes-, healf-, heorþ-, hundred-, Róm-, seam-pening.
Linked entries
v.  pending.
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