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sárig

  • adjective
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sárig, adj.
feeling grief, sorry, sorrowful, sad
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  • Ðá wæs Petrus sárig

    contristatus est Petrus,

      Jn. Skt. 21, 17: Homl. Th. ii. 248, 11.

  • Ic mé sylfa eam sárig þearfa

    pauper et dolens ego sum,

      Ps. Th. 68, 30.

  • Ðá sceolde se hearpere weorþan swá sárig ðæt hé ne mihte on gemong óðrum monnum beón

    the harper (Orpheus) is said to have become so afflicted with grief, that he could not live among other men,

      Bt. 35, 6; Fox 168, 6.

  • Se is swíðe sárig for ðínum earfoþum and for ðínum wræcsíþe,

      10; Fox 28, 18.

  • Ðæs ðe hé swá geómor wearð, sárig for his synnum,

      Exon. Th. 450, 15; Dóm. 88.

  • Hé wearð swíðe sári

    graviter accepit,

      Gen. 48, 17.

  • Ne forseoh sáriges béne,

      Ps. Th. 54, 1.

  • On salig wé sárige úre organan áhéngan,

      136, 2.

  • Ðá wurdon hiora wíf swásárige on hiora móde, and swá swíðlíce gedréfed,

      Ors. 1, 10; Swt. 44, 29.

  • Hig wæron sárie (

    dolentes

    ) for hira geswince,
      Num. 11, 1.

  • Monge ðe hine sárge gesóhtun, freórigmóde,

      Exon. Th. 155, 12; Gú. 859.

  • Sóhton sárigu tú (

    the two women at the sepulchre

    ) sigebearn
      Godes, 460, 2; Hö. 11.

  • Sárge gé ne sóhton, ne him swǽslíc word frófre gesprǽcon,

      92, 19; Cri. 1511.
expressing grief, mournful, sad, bitter
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  • Hé ðá wépende wéregum teárum his sigedryhten sárgan reorde grétte,

      Andr. Kmbl. 120; An. 60.

  • Ðonne hé wrece sárigne sang,

      Beo. Th. 4885; B. 2447.

  • Sárige teáras,

      Ps. Th. 55, 7.
Etymology
[O. Sax. O. H. Ger. sérag dolens, amarus.]
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v. efen- (em-) sárig.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sárig.” 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/26435.

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