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sóna

  • adverb
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Grammar
sóna, adv.
Wright's OE grammar
§5; §121; §165; §306; §560;
Soon, immediately, directly, at once
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  • Sóna actutum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 5, 2: 82, 70:

    extemplo,

      31, 45.

  • Hí wǽron sóna deáde

    they died at once,

      Bd. 1, 12; S. 481, 22.

  • Lege ðǽrtó, ðonne biþ hit sóna gebét,

      Lchdm. i. 116, 13: 118, 11.

  • Ǽlc cræft biþ sóna forealdod,

      Bt. 17; Fox 60, 10.

  • And sóna (

    statim

    ) gást hine on wésten genýdde,
      Mk. Skt. 1, 12, 10.

  • Hí ðá sóna forléton hyra nett,

      Mt. Kmbl. 4, 22.

  • Ðá sóna (

    continuo

    ) forscranc ðæt fictreów,
      21, 19: Cd. Th. 53, 16; Gen. 862.

  • Ðá sóna and hræðe

    ac[t]utum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 17.

  • Forhwon ne woldest ðú sóna hraþe ða dígolnesse mé cýþan

    quare non citius hoc compertum mihi revelare voluisti?

      Bd. 4, 25; S. 601, 21.

  • Se ðe wille wyrcan wæstmbǽre lond, átió of ðæm æcere ǽrest sóna (

    first of all;

    cf. ǽrest,
      Bt. Fox 78, 22) fearn and þornas, Met. 12, 2, 25.

  • Eft sóna

    again,

    Soul
      Kmbl. 134; Seel. 67.

  • Sóna æfter ðæra daga gedréfednesse

    statim post tribulationem dierum illorum,

      Mt. Kmbl. 24, 29: Cd. Th. 304, 14; Sat. 630.

  • Sóna ðæs forman geáres ðá Decius féng tó ríce,

      Homl. Skt. i. 23, 476.

  • Sóna ðæs ðe hé ðam biscopsetle onféng

    ubi sedem episcopalem accepit,

      Bd. 1, 33; S. 498, 29.

  • Ðá sóna ðæs ðe ðis fæsten geworht wæs

    quo mox condito,

      1, 12; S. 481, 12.

  • Sóna hraþe ðæs ðe hé biscop geworden wæs

    mox ut ipse pontificatus officio functus est,

      2, 1; S. 501, 34.

  • Sóna ðæt him bet wæs

    nec mora, melius habere coepit,

      3, 13; S. 539, 6.

  • Sóna swá seó sunne sealte streámas oferhlifaþ, swá se fugel of beáme gewíteþ,

      Exon. Th. 206, 1; Ph. 120.

  • Sóna swá . . . , ðá,

      Met. 8, 1.
Etymology
[O. Sax. sán, sáno: O. Frs. són, sán: cf. Goth. suns.]
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v.  be-sóne.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sóna.” 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/28308.

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