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swift

  • adjective
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swift, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§426;
Swift, fleet, that does or can move quickly
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  • Suift

    alacer,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 99, 76.

  • Swift, 6, 51: expeditus, 145, 36:

    celer,

      Ælfc. Gr. 9, 18; Zup. 44, 9.

  • Swyft

    pernix,

      9, 64; Zup. 71, 2.

  • Swift scip

    archiromachus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 63, 30.

  • Hé (the phenix) is snel and swift

    velox est,

      Exon. Th. 220, 8; Ph. 317.

  • Ne se swifta mearh burhstede beáteþ,

      Beo. Th. 4521; B. 2264.

  • Him on swift wind (cf. ungemetlíc wind,

      Bt. 12; Fox 36, 15) swápeþ, Met. 7, 20.

  • Rodor swíféþ swift,

      28, 17.

  • Bufan ðam swiftan rodore. Bt. 36,

      2; Fox 174, 15.

  • Micel swég gǽþ of heora

    (the stars)

    swiftan ryne,
      Boutr. Scrd. 18, 43.

  • Hors swiftne,

      Exon. Th. 400, 3; Rä. 20, 3: 487, 22; Rä. 74, 1.

  • Swifteǽrendracan

    veltes ( = velites),

      Wrt. Voc. i. 18, 23.

  • Ic hæbbe swíþe swifte feþera,

      Bt. 36, 2; Fox 174, 4.

  • Se móna is be sumum dǽle swiftre ðonne seó sunne,

      Lchdm. iii. 248, 3.

  • Ða (

    Alfred's ships

    ) wǽron ǽgðer ge swiftran ge unwealtran ge eác hiéran ðonne ða óðru,
      Chr. 897; Erl. 95, 13.

  • Wind byþ on lyfte swiftust,

      Menol. Fox 464; Gn. C. 3.

  • Gecunnian hwylc heora swiftost hors hæfde,

      Bd. 5, 6; S. 619, 1.

  • Ealle ða menn ðe swyftoste hors habbaþ . . . Ðǽr beóþ ða swiftan hors ungefóge dýre,

      Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 20, 34-21, 6.
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v. ryne-swift.
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v.  swyft.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “swift.” 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/29785.

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