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Wright's OE grammar
§446; §458;
Add: A. as adverb.
of rest.
local,
inside aroom, house, &c.
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  • Leóht inne stód,

      B. 1570.
  • Gæst inne swæf, 1800: 1866.

  • Cyning inne gebond feónda foresprecan ..., þǽr hé ligeð in carcerne,

      Cri. 732.

  • Þæt hé inne oþþe úte cirican berýpe, Ll. Th. i. 334, 30. (a α) with prepositional phrases :-- Ísene gelíc inne on ðǽm ofne (

    in fornace

    ),
      Past. 269, 6, 8.

  • Wæs hé on sumum húse inne. Guth. Gr. 171,

      15, 16.

  • Inne on healle,

      B. 642.

  • Inne in ræcede,

      Mód. 17.

  • Þám þe inne gehýdde wrǽte under wealle, B. 3059. (a β) with þǽr (i) demonstrative :-- Hé fand þǽr inne æðelinga gedriht swefan, B. 118: Dan. 275. ꝥ þú þǽr to morgne mæssan inne gesinge, Bl. H. 207, 5: 205, 6: Ll. Th. i. 226, 29. (ii) relative :-- Hé eóde intó ðám búre þár his dohtor inne wæs, Ap. Th. 22, 18: Jud. 45: Bl. H. 217, 25. (a γ)

    with

    hér :-- Hér syndon inne dohtor míne,
      Gen. 2464.
indoors
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  • Witan ge lǽsse ge máre ðæs ðe tó túne belimpð, ge on túne ge on dúne ... ge inne ge úte,

      Angl. ix. 260, 1.
where there is idea of confinement
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  • Gif hé hine (an ox) inne betýnan nolde (cf.

    si non recluserit eum,

      Ex. 21, 29), Ll. Th. i. 48, 31.

  • Be fǽhðum. Gif se mon mægnes hæbbe ꝥ hé his gefán beríde and inne besitte,

      90, 4.

  • Gif hé torngemót þurhteón mihte þæt hé eotena bearn inne gemunde (

    that he might remember how his foe had been besieged

    (see the preceding passage)),
      B. 1141.
inne on, mid, within a region,
with a people
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  • Gylde lahslitte inne on Deonelage, wíte mid Englum,

      Ll. Th. i. 172, 3.

  • Hér inne on þyssum fýre,

      Gen. 436.

  • Þus hit stód inne mid Englum,

      Ll. Th. i. 330, 9.

  • Inne mid Denum,

      414, 15.
where there is detention
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  • Stande þriddan dǽl þǽre bóte inne a

    third part of the fine shall not be paid out,

      Ll. Th. i. 94, 7.
of the inner man
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  • Hreðer inne weóll,

      B. 2113.

  • Tó úpáhæfen inne on móde,

      Met. 25, 19.
of motion
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  • Hý hine þǽr inne gebringan. Ll. Th. i. 198, 26.

  • On ǽghwylcne þe þǽr inne cóm,

      Jud. 50.

  • Þǽr inne fealh secg,

      B. 2226.
  • B. as preposition (following case) :-- Ánn

  • On ꝥ hús þe heó hié inne reste,

      Bl. H. 147, 2.
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v. þǽr-inne.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “inne.” 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/53957.

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