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sang

  • noun [ masculine ]
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sang, es; m.
song, singing,
of human or angelic beings
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  • Sárlíc sang

    trenos

    (θρῆνος),
      Wrt. Voc. i. 28, 18.

  • Twegra sang

    bicinium,

    25.

  • Ungeswége sang

    diaphonia,

    34.

  • Geþwǽre sang

    armonia,

    39.

  • Ánswege sang

    simphonia,

    40.

  • Wuldres weard wordum herigaþ þegnas ... þǽr is sang æt selde,

      Cd. Th. 306, 12; Sat. 663.

  • Dǽr wæs sang and swég samod ætgædere ... gomenwudu gréted, gid oft wrecen,

      Beo. Th. 2130; B. 1063: 180; B. 90.

  • Ðǽr wæs singal sang and swegles gong, wlitig weoroda heáp,

      Andr. Kmbl. 1737; An. 871.

  • Ðǽr is engla song, eádigra blis,

      Exon. Th. 100, 31; Cri. 1650.

  • Magister cyriclíces sanges

    magister ecclesiasticae cantionis,

      Bd. 2, 20; S. 522, 27.

  • Songes magister

    cantandi magister,

      4, 2; S. 565, 38.

  • Ðá hé ðá ðis leóþ ásungen hæfde, ðá forlét hé ðone sang,

      Bt. 24, 1; Fox 80, 5.

  • Ðǽr (

    in heaven

    ) wé hálgan Gode sang ymb seld secgan sceoldon,
      Cd. Th. 279, 9; Sat. 235.

  • Gesǽton sigerófe sang áhófon

    lifted up their voices in song,

      Elen. Kmbl. 1733; Kl. 868.
of birds or animals
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  • Winsum sanc (

    of birds

    ),
      Met. 13, 50.

  • Fugla cynn songe lofiaþ módigne,

      Exon. Th. 221, 20; Ph. 337.

  • Mǽwes song,

      406, 25; Rä. 25, 6.

  • Earn sang áhóf,

      Elen. Kmbl. 58; El. 39.

  • Wulf sang áhóf,

      224; El. 112.
of sound caused by inanimate things; v. býme-sangere, sang-cræft, singan
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  • Ealle hearpan strengas se hearpere grét mid ánre honda, ðý hé wile ðæt hí ánne song singen, ðeáh hé hié ungelíce styrige

    idcirco chordae consonam modulationem reddunt; quia uno quidem plectro, sed non uno impulsu feriuntur,

      Past. 23; Swt. 175, 9.
a singing, chanting
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  • Se biscop and se mæssepreóst sceolan mæssan gesingan ... and ða ðe on heofenum syndon, hí þingiaþ for ða ðe ðyssum sange fylgeaþ,

      Blickl. Homl. 45, 36.
song, poetry, v. sang-cræft.
a song, a poem to be sung or
recited
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  • Se hálga song gehýred wæs,

      Exon. Th. 181, 23; Gú. 1297.

  • Ðá hæfde hé mé gebunden mid ðære wynnsumnesse his sanges

    me carminis mulcedo defixerat,

      Bt. 22, 1; Fox 76, 6.

  • Mé Gúðhere forgeaf máþþum songes tó leáne,

      Exon. Th. 322, 22; Víd. 67.

  • Galan sigeleásne sang,

      Beo. Th. 1578; B. 787.

  • Ðonne hé gyd wrece, sárigne sang,

      4885; B. 2447.

  • Ic ðysne sang (

    the poem which follows

    ) fand,
      Apstls. Kmbl. 1; Ap. 1.

  • Word sanga

    verba cantionum,

      Ps. Spl. 136, 3.

  • Singaþ ús ymnum ealdra sanga ðe gé on Sione sungan

    hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion,

      Ps. Th. 136, 4.

  • Sangum

    carminibus,

      Hpt. Gl. 519, 50.

  • Singaþ sangas Drihtne and him neówne sang singaþ

    cantate Domino canticum novum,

      Ps. Th. 149, 1: 95, 1.
  • [Goth. saggws: O. Sax. sang: O. Frs. song: O. H. Ger. sang: Icel. söngr. v..
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sang.” 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/26404.

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