mǽg-burh
- noun [ feminine ]
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Mǽg-burg
cognatio,
- Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 70.
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Weóx under wolcnum mǽgburh Semes,
- Cd. 82 ;
- Th. 102, 20 ;
- Gen. 1703 : 100 ;
- Th. 132, 14 ;
- Gen. 2193 : 81 ;
- Th. 102, 4 ;
- Gen. 1695.
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Ne weorþeþ sió mǽgburg gemicledu eaforan mínum,
- Exon. 105 b ;
- Th. 401, 31 ;
- Rä. 21, 20.
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Heó ongan his mǽgburge men geícean sunum and dóhtrum,
- Cd. 56 ;
- Th. 69, 7 ;
- Gen. 1132 : 101 ;
- Th. 134, 5 ;
- Gen. 2220 : Beo. Th. 5766 ;
- B. 2887.
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Hé hit ne móste sellan of his mǽgburge
he might not sell it (bócland) out of the family,
- L. Alf. pol. 41 ;
- Th. i. 88, 18.
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Wes mǽgburge mínre árfæst
be kind to my kindred,
- Cd. 136 ;
- Th. 171, 8 ;
- Gen. 2825 : Exon. 88 a ;
- Th. 331, 3 ;
- Vy. 62.
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Gielden siððan his mǽgas ðone wer gif hé mǽgburg (-borh, MS. B.: -burh, MS. H.) hæbbe freó
let his kinsmen afterwards pay the wergild, if he have free kindred,
- L. In. 74 ;
- Th. i. 148, 19.
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Mǽgburge míne
my children,
- Exon. 104 b ;
- Th. 397, 15 ;
- Rä. 16, 20.
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Iécte mǽgburg síne,
- Cd. 55 ;
- Th. 68, 27 ;
- Gen. 1123.
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Mǽgburh,
- 52 ;
- Th. 65, 14 ;
- Gen. 1066.
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Cúðe ǽghwilc mǽgburga riht
each one knew the rights of the tribes,
- 161 ;
- Th. 200, 5 ;
- Exod. 352.
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Ða ðe mǽgburge mǽst gefrunon frumcyn feora fæderæþelo gehwæs
those who were best informed as to families, as to the origin of men, and the ancestry of each,
- Th. 200, 21 ;
- Exod. 360.
Bosworth, Joseph. “mǽg-burh.” 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/22040.
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