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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. v.
    dolh-, fót-, swát-, weald-, wund-swaþu; swæþ.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “swaþu.” 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/29570.

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