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swaþu

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
swaþu, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§54; §366;
A track, trace, footstep, vestige; left in swathe a row of mown grass
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  • On Oliuetes dúne syndon nú gyt ða swæþe Drihtnes fótlásta . . . ne mihte seó his swaðu beón ðǽm óðrum fiórum geonlícod . . . ða his swaða syndon monnum tó écre láre . . . men mihton sceáwian Drihtnes fóta swaðe.

    • Shrn. 80, 35-81, 15.
  • Næs bútan seó swáðu (the trace of a wound, scar) on,

    • 05, 3.
  • Wé sóðfæstes swaðe folgodon,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 1346
    • ;
    • An. 673.
  • Him on swaðe fylgeþ

    follows in his track, pursues him,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 186
    • ;
    • Sal. 92: Exon. Th. 397, 25
    • ;
    • Rä. 16, 25: 487, 23
    • ;
    • Rä. 74.
  • Hæleð lágon, on swaðe sǽton

    sat in the track, were left dead in the track of the retreating force.

    • Cd. Th. 125, 10
    • ;
    • Gen. 2077: 127, 21
    • ;
    • Gen. 2114: Andr. Kmbl. 2844
    • ;
    • An. 1424.
  • Hié ( the defeated Assyrians ) on swaðe reston,

    • Judth. Thw. 26, 11
    • ;
    • Jud. 322.
  • On swaðe feóllon æðelinga bearn.

    • Cd. Th. 120, 28
    • ;
    • Gen. 2001.
  • Hig unc ásetton on óðre healfe ðære eá, ðæt ða ne mihton uncre swaðe findon,

    • Shrn. 42, 3.
  • Nǽnige swaðe his

    nullum ejus vestigium,

    • Bd. 4, 23
    • ;
    • S. 595, 3.
  • Þeáh ælda bearn lástas míne sécaþ, ic swaþe míne bemíþe,

    • Exon. Th. 500, 26
    • ;
    • Rä. 89, 12.
  • Swæðe,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 2880
    • ;
    • An. 1443.
  • Ða swaþe áwuniaþ reogollíces lífes

    regularis vitae vestigia permanent,

    • Bd. 4, 3
    • ;
    • S. 566, 43.
  • Sweðe míne

    vestigia mea,

    • Ps. Surt. 16, 5: 17, 37.
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dolh-, fót-, swát-, weald-, wund-swaþu; swæþ.
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  • swaþu, n.