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tín

  • noun
  • numeral
  • adjective
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Grammar
tín, tién, tén, týn teá (North.)
ten
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as an adjective with a noun uninflected, except in the Northern specimens
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  • Tín dagas,

    • Bd. 1, 23;
    • S. 485, 24.

  • Ðis is ðara týn hída bóc,

    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 316, 33.

  • Mid tién bebodum,

    • Past. 17;
    • Swt. 125, 18.

  • Tién ceastro

    Decapoleas,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 26, 14.

  • Sume tén geár,

    • Bt. 38, 1;
    • Fox 194, 7.

  • Týn þúsend (téno ł teá ðúsendo, Lind.: tén þúsende, Rush.) punda,

    • Mt. Kmbl. 18, 24.

  • Gelíc ðám týn fǽmnum (téwm hehstaldum, Lind.: tén fémnan, Rush.),

    • 25, 1.

  • Mid týn (téum ł ténum, Lind.: tén, Rush.) þúsendum,

    • Lk. Skt. 14, 31.

  • Týn (teá, Lind. Rush.) hreófe weras,

    • 17, 12.

  • Teá síðum,

    • Lind. 15, 8.

  • Fram wintrum ténum,

    • p. 8, 4.

  • Teá ł téno hreáfo,

    • p. 9, 8.

  • Of téum hehstaldum,

    • Mt. Kmbl. p. 19, 16.

  • Teá monna látwu

    decanus,

    • Rtl. 193, 19.
used as a substantive and declined, nom. -e, gen. -a, dat. -um.
alone
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  • Ðá gebulgon ða týne (téno, Lind.: ténu, Rush.) hí,

    • Mk. Skt. 10, 41.

  • Ða hildlatan, týne ætsomne,

    • Beo. Th. 5687;
    • B. 2847.

  • Týna ealdor

    decanus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 138, 4.

  • Næs tó ánum dæge, ne tó fífon, ne tó týnum, ne tó twéntigum,

    • Num. 11, 19.

  • Aldormonn ofer téno

    decanus,

    • Rtl. 193, 21, 19.
governing a genitive
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  • Gif ðǽr beóþ týn rihtwísra,

    • Gen. 18, 32.

  • Hæfde se ealwalda engelcynna týne getrymede,

    • Cd. Th. 16, 24;
    • Gen. 248.

  • Nigon hund wintra hæfde and týne,

    • 71, 3;
    • Gen. 1165.
a set of ten
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  • Týnum and twéntigum on ánum inne ætgædere restan

    let them sleep by tens and twenties in one house,

    • R. Ben. 47, 7.
the number ten
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  • Ðis tal under him hæfis óðer tal ðe tó ténum wið forecyme (a number that goes up to ten),

    • Mt. Kmbl. p. 3, 20.

  • Tele ðú óð ðæt ðú cume tó þrittiga, eft . . . tele óð týne

    (count up to ten),

    • Lchdm. iii. 228, 2.
Etymology
[
Goth. taihun
:
O. Sax. tehan
:
O. Frs. tian, tien
:
O. L. Ger. tén, teiu, tian
:
O. H. Ger. zehan
:
Icel. tíu.
]
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v.  teá tién týn.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “tín.” 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/30525.

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  • tín, n.; num.; adj.

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