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ge-mǽnan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
ge-mǽnan, p. de; pp. ed [ge-mǽne communis] .
to MEAN, to signify; sibi velle, significare
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  • Hwæt gemǽnaþ ðás lamb

    quid sibi volunt agnæ istæ?

    • Gen. 21, 29
      • .

  • Ic wéne ðæt ðú nyte hwæt ðis gemǽne

    I expect that thou wilt not know what this means,

    • Btwk. Scrd. 18, 26
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  • Hwæt gemǽnaþ ða ðreó útfaru? Ðæt getácnaþ . . .

    what do the three outgoings mean? They indicate . . .

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    • 21, 40
      • .
to communicate, announce, pronounce, utter; communicare, pronuntiare
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  • Hwílum ic glidan reorde múþe gemǽne

    sometimes in a kite's voice I utter with my mouth,

    • Exon. 106 b
      • ;
    • Th. 406, 24
      • ;
    • Rä. 25, 6
      • .
to give expression to one's feelings, as, of pain, to MOAN, to groan; ingemiscere, plangere,
  • Mk. Skt. Lind. 8, 12
    • :
  • Lk. Skt. Lind. 23, 27
    • .
to commune with oneself about anything, to consider/; colloqui, considerare
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  • Se fæder hit gemǽnde stille

    pater rem tacitus considerabat,

    • Gen. 37, 11
      • .
[mǽne vilis, scelestus] to make common, contaminate, defile, violate; communicare, coinquinare, violare
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  • Ðæt ðǽr ǽnig mon wordum ne worcum wǽre ne brǽce, ne þurh inwit-searo ǽfre gemǽnden

    that there not any man by words or works should break the compact, nor through guileful art should ever violate it,

    • Beo. Th. 2207, note
      • ;
    • B. 1101
      • .
Etymology
[
Goth. ga-mainjan communicare alicui
; κoινŵν vel κoινωνεĭν τινί τι, etiam, coinquinare vel communicare aliquid; κoινŵν τι :
O. Sax. gi-ménian to make known
:
O. H. Ger. gi-meinen dicere, monstrare, judicare
.]
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v. mǽnan.
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v.  mǽnan mǽnan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-mǽnan.” 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/15112.

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