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swég

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
swég, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§387;
unregulated, confused sound, noise, din, crash
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  • Suoeg, cirm

    fragor,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 109, 27.

  • Swǽg

    clangor, sonitus,

      Hpt. Gl. 451, 44.

  • Ne wind ne wætres swég,

      Blickl. Homl. 65, 19.

  • Swég on windes onlícnesse,

      133, 15.
  • Swég innan ðan heáfedan. Lchdm. iii. 92, 25.

  • Wæs ðeód on sǽlum sigefolca swég,

      Beo. Th. 1292; B. 644: Cd. Th. 289, 26; Sat. 403.

  • For gedréfednesse sǽs swéges

    (sonitus),

      Lk. Skt. 21, 25.

  • Swoeges,

      Ps. Surt. 76, 18.

  • Gebrece, swoege fragore, Wrt. Voc. ii. 33, 79, Mid micle swége

    cum maximo fragore,

      Ors. 5, 10; Swt. 234, 3.

  • Wið eárena swége

    for singing in the ears,

      Lchdm. i. 350, 1.

  • Nán monn ne gehiérde ne æxe hlem ne biétles suég,

      Past. 36; Swt. 253, 17.

  • Hig fleóþ leáfes swég

    (sonitus folii volantis),

      Lev. 26, 36.

  • Micelne swég unmǽtes wópes,

      Bd. 5, 12; S. 628, 29.

  • Swégas (-es, MS.)

    tonitrua,

      Hpt. Gl. 452, 60.

  • Swoegum

    bombis,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 8.
regulated, modulated or
articulate sound,
sound made by living creatures, voice, cry or
note of a bird, song
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  • Dyptongus is twýfeald swég. Ælfc. Gr. 4; Zup. 7, 13.

    Accentus,

    ðæt is swég, on hwylcum stæfgefége ǽlc word swégan sceal,
      50, 13; Zup. 290, 16.

  • Swég

    tenor,

      Hpt. Gl. 528, 21.

  • Heofoncyninges stefn, wordhleóðres swég,

      Andr. Kmbl. 186; An. 93.

  • Swég (

    the voice of Moses

    ) swiðrode,
      Cd. Th. 197, 18; Exod. 309.

  • Engla þreátas sigeleóð sungon, swég wæs on lyfte gehýred,

      Exon. Th. 181, 7; Gú. 1289.

  • Biþ ðæs hleóðres swég (

    the song of the phenix

    ) eallum songcræftum swétra,
      206, 24; Ph. 131.

  • Sume synd geworhte æfter gelícnysse ágenes swéges,

    turtur

    turtle,
      Ælfc. Gr. 5; Zup. 14, 2.

  • Ganetes hleóþor and húilpan swég. Exon. Th. 307,

      9; Seef. 21.

  • Swéga mǽste,

      239, 9; Ph. 618.

  • Tyrnende swégas

    rotatiles trocheos,

      Germ. 403, 8.
sound made by means of an instrument, v. swég-cræft. voice; also
the instrument
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  • Ðære býman swég,

      Ex. 19, 19.

  • Hearpan swég,

      Beo. Th. 179; B. 89.

  • Sume syndon geworhte æfter gelícnysse ágenes swéges.

    titinnabulum

    belle,
      Ælfc. Gr. 5; Zup. 14, 2.

  • Swége

    classica.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 19, 67.

  • On swége (swóge, Ps. Surt.) býman

    in sono tubae.

      Ps. Spl. 150, 3.

  • On swége

    in tympano, 149, 3, MS. T. For ðam swége (of the harp. )

      Bt. 35, 6; Fox 168, 1.

  • Hearpan swinsigende swég,

      Cd. Th. 66, 8; Gen. 1081.

  • Heó gehýrde bellan swég,

      Shrn. 149, 9: Homl. Th. ii. 156, 6.

  • Swégas

    classica.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 62.

  • Dreámas (swégas, MS. T.)

    organa.

      Ps. Spl. 136, 2. ¶ In Wrt. Voc. ii. 110, 43: 43, 7, swég
a person
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  • Be onfangenysse swégea

    de acceptione personarum,

      Scint. 183, 17 (swég is used several times in the section
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v.  swég-cræft swóg.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “swég.” 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/29611.

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