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  • adjective
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má, indecl. cpve. used as subst. and adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§306; §556;
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as subst.
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  • Sume naman sind omonima; ða getácniaþ þinga mid ánre clypunge,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 5
    • ;
    • Som. 4, 13.
  • Seó þridde declinatio hefþ eahta and hundseofontig geendunga oððe ,

    • 9
    • ;
    • Som. 8, 15 : Elen. Kmbl. 1264
    • ;
    • El. 634.
  • Hé hæfþ weána ðonne ǽniges mannes gemet sý ðæt hié áríman mǽge,

    • Blickl. Homl. 61, 36 : 213, 28.
  • Ǽghwylcum men biþ leófre swá hé hæbbe holdra freónda ,

    • 123, 1.
  • Mid ðý eówer is

    cum sitis numero plures,

    • Bd. 2, 2
    • ;
    • S. 503, 13.
  • Ne gehérde ða ondsware manna ðonne ða míne getreówestan freónd,

    • Nar. 32, 15.
  • ðæra Iudéiscra ealdra embe Cristes cwale smeádon,

    • Homl. Th. i. 88, 28.
  • Næfde hé ðonne twentig swýna,

    • Ors. 1, 1
    • ;
    • Swt. 18, 14.
  • Nó ðé láðes gedón móton

    no worse may they do thee,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 2885
    • ;
    • An. 1446.
  • Ða habbaþ twegen mislíce casus and ná on gewunan ... nis ðǽr ná mislícra casa

    they have two different cases, and no more generally .. . there are no more different cases,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 14
    • ;
    • Som. 17, 3-7 : 15
    • ;
    • Som. 17, 38 : Blickl. Homl. 35, 24.
  • Donatus téþ gyt tó ðysum . . Gyt synd ðyssera æfter Priscianus,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 44
    • ;
    • Som. 46, 6-10.
  • Gyt wæs ðe ðæt dón ne wolde

    there were yet more who would not do that,

    • Bd. 1, 14
    • ;
    • S. 482, 17.
  • Swá ðǽr beáh tó ðam sóðan geleáfan,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 540, 27.
  • Ðá geneálǽhton hine meldigende,

    • 248, 32.
  • Nabbaþ syððan hwæt hig dón

    non habent amplius quod faciant,

    • Lk. Skt. 12, 4.
  • Hwæt sceal ic ðonne secgean fram Sancte Johanne,

    • Blickl. Homl. 169, 24 : Bd. 3, 27
    • ;
    • S. 559, 22 : Ps. Th. 125, 2.
  • Gif hé wille, drince hé hát wæter,

    • L. M. 2, 59
    • ;
    • Lchdm. ii. 284, 5.
  • Be ðam man mæg gecnáwan and be þinga,

    • Wulfst. 5, 4.
  • Swá mid læs worda, swá mid ,

    • Bt. 35. 5
    • ;
    • Fox 166, 12.
  • Hé ne úde ðæt ǽnig óðer man ǽfre mǽrða ðon gehédde ðonne hé sylfa

    he would not allow that any other man should have any more distinctions than he himself had,

    • Beo. Th. 1012
    • ;
    • B. 504.
  • Wát ic sorga ðý ,

    • Cd. 42
    • ;
    • Th. 54, 33
    • ;
    • Gen. 886.
  • wundra

    plura signa,

    • Jn. Skt. Lind. 7. 31.
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  • Seó sáwul ys ðonne se líchama and se líchama má ðonne ðæt reáf

    anima plus est quam esca, et corpus quam vestimentum,

    • Lk. Skt. 12, 23.
  • wén is ðæt ðú onsende ðínne engel

    there is more hope if you send your angel,

    • Blickl. Homl. 231, 23.
  • wæter of ðínum múþ ðú ne send,

    • 247. 7.
  • Ic nelle nán word of ðínum múþe gehýran,

    • Nar. 45, 23.
  • Ic wæs sixtýne síðum on sǽbáte . . . is þys áne

    I have been sixteen times in a sea boat ... this is once more,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 984
    • ;
    • An. 492.
  • Ðæt wæs cræft ðonne hit eorþbúend ealle cúþan [cf. use of mikil in O.Sax. kúðean kraft mikil],

    • Exon. 13 b
    • ;
    • Th. 26, 24
    • ;
    • Cri. 421.
  • Ne synd ná namanspeligende bútan ðás fífténe

    there are no more pronouns than these fifteen,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 15
    • ;
    • Som. 17, 46.
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  • má, n.; adj.