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here-toga

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
here-toga, -toha, an; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§225; §239;
The leader of an army or of a people, a general; dux, consul
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  • Heretoga vel heorl

    dux,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 68; Som. 70, 2; Wrt. Voc. 42, 11.

  • Heretoga

    comes,

    • Rtl. 193, 9.

  • Of ðé forþgǽþ se heretoga seðe recþ mín folc

    ex te exiet dux, qui reget populum meum,

    • Mt. Kmbl. 2, 6.

  • Consul ðæt wé heretoha hátaþ

    consul which we call 'heretoha,'

    • Bt. 1; Fox 2, 12
      • :
    • 21; Fox 76, 4.

  • Sum biþ heretoga fyrdwísa from

    one is a leader, a good guide of the host,

    • Exon. 79b; Th. 297, 31; Crä. 76.

  • Se heretoga Moyses

    the leader Moses,

    • Homl. Th. i. 92, 25.

  • Moises se mǽra heretoga

    Moses the great leader.

    • Num. 13, 1
      • :
    • Jud. 1, 1
      • :
    • Swt. A. S. Rdr. 60, 107.

  • Uton ús gesettan heretogan

    let us make a captain,

    • Num. 14, 4.

  • Heora heretogan twegen gebroðra Hengest and Horsa

    duces eorum duo fratres Hengest and Horsa,

    • Bd. 1, 15; S. 483, 28.

  • Heora heretogena sum ofslægen wearþ

    one of their leaders was slain,

    • Chr. 794; Erl. 59, 21.

  • Twelf heretogan hé gestrínþ

    twelve princes shall he beget,

    • Gen. 17, 20.

  • De heretochiis,

    • L. Ed. C; Th. i. 456, note a.
Etymology
[
Laym. here-toȝe
:
O. Sax. heri-togo
:
Icel. her-togi
:
O. H. Ger. heri-zoho, -zogo dux, imperator
:
Ger. herzog
.]
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Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “here-toga.” 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/18920.

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