Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

ge-beódan

  • verb [ weak ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
ge-beódan, p. -beád, pl. -budon; pp. -boden [ge-, beódan to command] .
Wright's OE grammar
§651;
to command, order, summon; jŭbēre, mandāre
Show examples

  • Hét gebeódan byre Wihstánes hæleða monegum boldágendra, ðæt hie bǽlwudu feorran feredon

    Wihstan's son bade command many house-owning men, that they should convey pile-wood from afar,

    • Beo. Th. 6211
      • ;
    • B. 3110
      • :
    • Elen. Kmbl. 551
      • ;
    • El. 276
      • .
to announce, proclaim; annuntiāre
Show examples

  • Hit beó seofon nihtum geboden ǽr

    let it be announced seven days before,

    • L. Ath. i. 20; Th. i. 208, 27
      • :
    • Cd. 183; Th. 229, 27
      • ;
    • Dan. 223
      • .
to offer, propose, give, grant; offerre, præbēre
Show examples

  • Hiera se æðeling gehwelcum feoh and feorh gebeád

    to each of them the noble offered money and life,

    • Chr. 755; Erl. 50, 5, 15
      • .

  • Gebudon him Perse ðæt hí hæfdon iii winter sibbe wið hí

    the Persians proposed that they should have peace with them for three years,

    • Ors. 3, 1; Bos. 52, 27
      • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. gibiodan
:
O. H. Ger. ga-biutan, -piotan
:
Ger. gebieten
.]
Linked entries
v.  ge-beád ge-boden ge-budon.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-beódan.” 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/13625.

Checked: 1
Full form

Word-wheel

  • ge-beódan, v.

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.