Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

sárgian

  • verb [ weak ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
sárgian, p. ode.
Wright's OE grammar
§536;
to make sad (sárig), to grieve (trans.),
afflict, wound
Show examples
  • Hí sárgiaþ fremdne flǽschoman,

      Salm. Kmbl. 220; Sal. 109.
to be or become sad, to grieve (intrans.),
languish
Show examples
  • Hé sárgaþ ðæs

    he is grieved at it,

      Past. 33; Swt. 227, 21.
  • Se bisceop hefiglíce sárgode be ðam fylle and mínre forwyrde

    episcopus gravissime de casu et interitu meo dolebat,

      Bd. 5, 6; S. 619, 32.
  • Eágan míne sárgodon

    oculi mei languerunt,

      Ps. Spl. 87, 9.
  • Ðá ongan hé forhtian and sárgian

    et coepit pauere et taedere,

      Mk. Skt. 14, 33.
  • Sárgiende ł sorhful

    dolens,

      Ps. Lamb. 68, 30.
  • Sárgiendne fréfrian

    dolentem cqnsolari,

      R. Ben. 17, 3 MS. O.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. seragón to sadden, pain, wound.]
Similar entries
v. be-, ge-sárgian.
Full form

Word-wheel

  • sárgian, v.