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ge-irnan

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Take here ge-yrnan in Dict., and add: A. intrans.
to run, run about
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  • Giiorniað

    discurrent,

      Rtl. 86, 36.

  • Geurnun (currebant) tuége ætgæðre, Jn. L. R. 20, 4. I a. of the movement of a vessel :-- Scipu frécedlíce geyrnað

    ships have perilous runs

    (naues perclitantur in pelago,
      297, 20), Archiv cxx. 298, 6.
to run to and reach.
to run to a person
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  • Gesæh ðone Hǽlend fearre tó gearn (

    cucurrit

    ) and worðade hine,
      Mk. L. R. 5, 6.

  • Giarn and cuóm tó Simon Petre,

      Jn. L. R. 20, 2.

  • All folc geuurnon groeton hine omnis populus . . . accurrentes salutabant eum, Mk. L. 9, 15. (1 a) to run and meet a person who approaches :-- Gearn

    occurrens,

      Mk. p. 4, 6: Jn. p. 6, 12.

  • In ðǽr stóue ðér gearn him (giarn tó tó him, R.) Martha

    in illo loco ubi occurrerat ei Martha,

      Jn. L. 11, 30.

  • Geurnon him tuoege

    occurrerunt ei duo,

      Mt. L. 8, 28.

  • Giurnon (gwurnun,

      L.) tógægnes him, Jn. R. 4, 51.

  • Brydegume cymende giiorne (

    occurrere

    ),
      Rtl. 106, 10. (1 b) with the idea of attack :-- Gelamp sume síðe, ðǽr hé sum gild bræc, ꝥ þǽr gearn mycel menigeo tó him . . . and ealle swíðe erre wǽron (cf.
    .
to run to a place
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  • Georn xvi-wintre mǽden tó ðǽre bǽre, seó wæs blind ácenned, and heó meahte sóna geseón,

      Shrn. 140, 1.

  • Tó ðǽr byrgenne gearn (

    currens

    ) and gesæh ꝥte áworden wæs,
      Lk. p. 11, 9: Lk. L. R. 24, 12. (2 a)
    where violent entry is made :-- Gif man in mannes tún ǽrest geirneð, .vi. scillingum gebéte; sé þe æfter irneð, .iii. scillingas, Ll. Th. i. 6, 16.

  • Cf. gegangeð,

      10, 3.
to run and do something
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  • Giarn (geharn,

      L.) án
    and gefylde copp mið æcede, Mk. R. 15, 36.
to run together, coagulate
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  • Ne lǽt geyrnan ꝥ ǽg . . . dó of ꝥ mon gegnídan ne mæge, ꝥ bið geurnen,

      Lch. ii. 272, 16-22.
  • Snáw cymð of ðám þynnum wǽtan þe . . . byð gefroren ǽr þan hé tó dropum geurnen sý, iii. 278, 25.
of action, to run into,
fall into
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  • Hé in nǽnigre leásunge synne ne georn

    nec falsitatis incurrebat peccatum,

      Gr. D. 22, 30.
of mental process,
to occur to the mind
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  • Swá hwæt swá þé on mód geurne

    quidquid animo occurrit,

      Gr. D. 147, 9. B. trans.
to run a course,
run through, over a space
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  • Þes circul (

    the zodiac

    ) ys tódǽled on twelf, and seó sunne geyrnð þás twelf fætu binnan .xii. mónðum,
      Angl. viii. 298, 16.

  • Saturnus geyrnð his ryne binnan þrittigum wintrum,

      320, 40: 42: 45.

  • Tó geyrnanne weg

    ad currendam uiam,

      Ps. L. 18, 6.
to run and reach a place (of shelter)
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  • Gif cirican fáh mon geierne,

      Ll. Th. i. 64, 9: 90, 9.

  • Gif hwá sié deáðes scyldig, and hé cirican geierne, hæbbe his feorh . . . Gif hwá his hýde forwyrce, and cirican geierne, sié him sió swingelle forgifen,

      104, 13-16.
to run and obtain, obtain by running
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  • Gif forworht man friðstól geséce, and þurh ꝥ feorh geyrne,

      Ll. Th. i. 332, 17.
  • Náhwár hé eft his feorh gefare ne geyrne, 24.
Similar entries
v. ge-rinnan.
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v.  ge-urnen ge-yrnan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-irnan.” 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/48532.

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