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on-orettan

  • verb [ uncertain ]
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on-orettan, to perform with effort, to accomplish (
a difficult undertaking)
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  • Nó hé ofer Offan eorlscype fremede (he did not excel Offa), ac Offa geslóg cyneríca mǽst; nǽnig efeneald him eorlscipe máran onorette áne sweorde

    no one of equal age had done such heroic deeds,

      Exon. Th. 321, 4; Víd. 41.
  • Iudiscféða án onorette uncúð gelád

    the tribe of Judah by itself performed the difficult and unknown course (the passage of the Red Sea ),

      Cd. Th. 197, 25; Exod. 313.
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v.  orettan.
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