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wénunga

  • adverb
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Grammar
wénunga, (wéninga); adv.
Wright's OE grammar
§554;
Perhaps, haply, by chance
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  • Wénunge(-a)

    farsan, forsitan, fortassis, fortasse

    • Ælfc. Gr. 38
      • ;
    • Zup. 229, 1: Wrt. Voc. ii. 150, 23.

  • Wénunga

    forsitan

    • Ps. Spl. 80, 13.

  • Wénunga hine hig forwandiaþ, ðonne hig hine geseóþ

    forsitan cum hunc uiderint uerebuntur

    • Lk. Skt. 20, 13.

  • Ne hit nǽfre næs tó geopenigenne búton wénunga hwilc munuc út fóre

    unless it happened that a monk had to go out

    • Homl. Skt. ii. 23 b, 104.

  • Ðe læs wénunga

    ne forte

    • Lk. Skt. 14, 8.

  • Nymðe mé Drihten gefultumede, wénincga mín sáwl sóhte helle

    nisi quia Dominus adjuvasset me, paulominus habitaverat in inferno anima meat

    • Ps. Th. 93, 16.

  • Woenunga

    forte

    • Mk. Skt. Lind. 11, 13: Lk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 9, 13.

  • Woenunge

    • Mk. Skt. Lind. 14, 2 :

    forsitan,

    • Jn. Skt. Lind. 5, 46.

  • Woeninga

    • Ps. Surt. 123, 4: 138, 11.
Similar entries
v. un-wénunga; wéning.
Linked entries
v.  wéning  weninga.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “wénunga.” 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/35097.

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  • wénunga, adv.

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