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innian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
innian, p. ode
To get within, put in, bring in, put up, lodge
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  • Hé werodaþ syððan hé innaþ

    interius recepta dulcescant,

    • Bt. 22, 1
    • ;
    • Fox 76, 31
    • .
  • Ðá hí ðider cómon ðá woldon hí innian hí ðær heom sylfan gelícode

    when they came thither then they wanted to put themselves up, where it pleased themselves,

    • Chr. 1048
    • ;
    • Erl. 177. 35
    • .
Etymology
[
Me nuste wære hem inny people did not not know where to lodge them, R. Glouc. 336, 14.
Þe kyng lette lede hem to a feir old court and innes hem þere , Jos. 174
Theseus ynned hem, everich at his degre, Chauc. Kn. T. 1334.
O. Frs. innia to harbour, lodge
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O. H. Ger. innón recipere, suscipere, adjungere, afferre, Grff. i. 298.
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v. inne, ge-innian.
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