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seonu

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
seonu, sionu, senu, sinu, synu; gen. seonwe, sine;
weak forms also occur; f. A sinew, nerve, tendon
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  • Sionu

    nervus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 114, 67.
  • Sinu, i. 71, 42.
  • Gif sin[o] scrince . . . and gif sino clæppette. Lchdm. ii. 6, 13 - 15.

  • Ðá æthrán hé his sine on his þeó

    tetigit nervum femoris ejus,

      Gen. 32, 25.

  • Healt for ðære sinwe (synewe,

      MS. B.) wunde, L. Alf. pol. 75; Th. i. 100, 5.
  • Gif man on sinwe besleá æt blódlǽtan. Lchdm. ii. 16, 8.

  • Gif mon ða. greátan sinwe (synewe,

      MS. B.) forsleá, L. Alf. pol. 75; Th. i. 100, 3.

  • Gif ða smalan sinwe (synewan,

      MS. B.) mon forsleá, 76; Th. i. 100, 8.

  • Nellaþ folc etan sine (

    nervum

    ),
      Gen. 32, 32.
  • Seonuwa [beóþ] fortogene. Lchdm. iii. 48, 28: 50, 5.
  • Seonowe onsprungon. Beo. Th. 1639; B. 817.

  • Seonwe (sina. Soul Kmbl. 217),

      Exon. Th. 373, 19; Seel. iii. Sionwe, Andr. Kmbl. 2849; An. 1427.

  • Senwe

    nerve,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 283, 37.

  • Sena,

      65, 15.

  • Sinu (-a ?),

      44, 23.
  • Gif sinwe sýn forcorfene. Lchdm. ii. 328, 5.
  • Wið sina sáre, i. 84, 10.

  • Wið ðara sina bifunge,

      104, 27.

  • Sina togung,

      136, 9.

  • Syna,

      136, 19.

  • Sina getog,

      356, 3.

  • Seonowum beslítan,

      Exon. Th. 371, 9; Seel. 73.

  • Seonwum (synum, Soul Kmbl. 123),

      370, 20; Seel. 62.

  • Mid rápum of sinum geworhte

    nerviceis funibus,

      Jud. 16, 7.

  • Se líchama wæs geboren mid blóde and mid bánum, mid felle and mid sinum,

      Homl. Th. ii. 270, 19.
  • Árǽran of duste flǽsc and bán, sina and fex, i. 236, 21.

  • On ða sáran sinua,

      Lchdm. ii. 282, 6.

  • For flǽsc and for bán and for sinuwan,

      L. Edg. C. 9; Th. ii. 264, 4.
  • Sinuwa, Anglia xi. 101, 47.
Etymology
[C. Frs. sini(-e), sene, sin: O. H. Ger. senawa : Icel. sin; pl. sinar and sinur.]
Similar entries
v. hóh-sinu.
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v.  sinu.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “seonu.” 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/27511.

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