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þeówen

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
þeówen, þíwen, [n]e; þeówene, an; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§599;
A female servant or slave, a handmaid
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  • Ic eom Drihtnes þeówen (

    ancilla,

      Lk. 1, 38), Blickl. Homl. 9, 20.

  • Ðá com tó hym án þeówyn (-en, MS. A.)

    accessit ad eum una ancilla,

      Mt. Kmbl. 26, 69.

  • Seó Godes ðeówen,

      Bd. 4, 9; S. 576, 14: Homl. Skt. ii. 23 b, 192.

  • Nergendes þeówen (

    Judith

    ),
      Judth. Thw. 22, 23; Jud. 74.

  • Ic Luba eáðmód Godes ðíwen,

      Chart. Th. 475. 21.

  • Hé sceáwode ða eáþmódnesse his þeówene,

      Blickl. Homl. 7, 4.

  • Swá eágan gáð earmre þeówenan (

    ancillae

    ), ðonne heó on hire hlǽfdigean handa lócaþ,
      Ps. Th. 122, 3.

  • Heó hié sylfe tó ðeówene genemde,

      Blickl. Homl. 9, 24.

  • Þeówene,

      89, 12.

  • Gif hwá ásleá his þeówe oþþe his þeówenne (-ene,

      MS. H.)
    ðæt eáge út, L. Alf. 20; Th. i. 48, 24.

  • Þeówne

    (or adj.?) bernam,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 24.

  • Ðeáh hwá bebycgge his dohtor on þeówenne,

      L. Alf. 12; Th. i. 46, 12.

  • Se fæder hire sealde áne þeówene (

    servam

    ),
      Gen. 29, 29.

  • Ðióenne

    famulam,

      Rtl. 104, 2: 34, 10 (see Skeat's collation). Ðióen, 25.

  • Sca Affra and hire þreó ðeówena ... Sió Affra wæs ǽrest forlegor wíf mid hire þeówenum,

      Shrn. 115, 3-5.

  • Ðá hét hire fæder hí bewyrcean on ánum torre mid twelf ðeówennum,

      106, 1.

  • Þeówenna

    bernas,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 95, 59: 12, 17.

  • Ic hæbbe þeówas and þeówena (

    servos et ancillas

    ),
      Gen. 32, 5.
Similar entries
v. efen-þeówen.
Linked entries
v.  þeów þióen þíwen þýwen.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “þeówen.” 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/31787.

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