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plega

  • noun [ masculine ]
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plega, an; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§401;
play, quick movement
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  • Plega

    gesticulatio,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 41, 36.

  • Plegan

    gestum,

      Hpt. Gl. 474, 10.
play, (athletic) sport, game; often in poetry applied to fighting, see the compounds
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  • Plega

    ludus,

      Ælfc. Gr. 8 ; Som. 7, 30.

  • Ðes plega

    hic jocus,

      13; Som. 16, 27 : Wrt. Voc. i. 85, 30.

  • Plaega

    palestra,

    ii.
      116, 5.

  • Mid ðám þiówum wæs on symbel mín plega

    hunt continuum ludum ludimus,

      Bt. 7, 3 ; Fox 20, 34 : Exon. Th. 46, 27 ; Cri. 743.

  • Ealle ða hwíle ðe ðæt líc bíþ inne, ðǽr sceal beón gedrync and plega,

      Ors. 1, 1 ; Swt. 20, 26.

  • Ðǽr wæs heard plega wælgára wrixl (

    the battle between the four kings and the five

    ),
      Cd. Th. 120, 4; Gen. 1989.

  • Plæges

    saltationis,

      Mk. Skt. p. 3, 11.

  • Ic mé tó ðam plegan gemengde

    ludentibus me miscui,

      Bd. 5, 6 ; S. 619, 11.

  • Bebudon Rómána godas ðæm senatum ðæt mon theatrum worhte him tó plegan,

      Ors. 4, 12 ; Swt. 208, 33.

  • Ðá hié æt hiora theatrum wǽron mid heora plegan ... heora plegan begán,

      6, 2 ; Swt. 256, 10-14.

  • Ða cild rídaþ on heora stafum, and manigfealde plegan plegiaþ,

      Bt. 36, 5; Fox 180, 9.

  • Wé forbeódaþ ǽgðer ge plegan, ge unnytta word, ge gehwylce unnyttnesse in ðám hálgan stówum tó dónne,

      L. E. I. 10; Th. ii. 408, 22.

  • Hié wǽron welige ... and heora plegan wǽron genihtsume . . . Hió hæfdon wiste and plegan and oforgedrync,

      Blickl. Homl. 99, 17-21.

  • Plegan allusiones, Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 44 :

    colludia,

      20, 71.

  • Plegena

    ludorum,

      50, 25.
clapping with the hands, applause (v. plegan, IV)
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  • Ðæm plegan

    plausu,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 67, 26.
  • v. æsc-, ecg-, gilp-, gúþ-, hand-, hearm-, hyht-, lind-, níp-, secg-, stæf-, sund-, sweord-, wíg-plega, nextt
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v.  hand-plega plegan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “plega.” 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/25268.

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