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land-begenga

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
land-begenga, an; m.
a cultivator of land, husbandman, farmer
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  • Se mǽra landbegenga [londbegengea, MS. Cott.]

    magnus colonus,

    • Past. 40, 3
    • ;
    • Swt. 293, 2
    • .
  • Gif hit on Wódnes dæig þunrige ðæt tácnaþ landbigencgena cwealm and cræftigra

    if it thunder on Wednesday, that betokens death of husbandmen and craftsmen,

    • Lchdm. iii. 180, 14
    • .
  • Ágæf ða ðǽm londbigencgum [-bigengum, Rush.]

    locavit eam agricolis,

    • Mk. Skt. Lind. 12, 1
    • .
an inhabitant of a country, a native
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  • Ðá sægdon mé ða londbigengan

    mihi locorum incole affirmabant,

    • Nar. 20, 16
    • .
  • Ðám sylfan landbigengum

    ipsis indigenis,

    • Bd. 1, 15
    • ;
    • S. 483, 34
    • .
  • Ealle ða landbigengan útamǽran

    omnes indigenas exterminare,

    • 4, 16
    • ;
    • S. 584, 6
    • .
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. lant-pikengeo accola, indigena.
]
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v.  land-begang.
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  • land-begenga, n.