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teón

  • verb [ strongcontracted ]
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Grammar
teón, (from tíhan; but the verb seems to have almost entirely given up the conjugation to which this form would belong and to take that of teón from teóhan); p. teáh, pl. tugon; pp. togen, tygen
Wright's OE grammar
§29; §127; §492;
To accuse a person of something (acc. of person and gen. of charge, or charge expressed by a clause)
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  • Ðú mé stale týhst

    furti me arguis,

      Gen. 31, 32.
  • Hwí tíhþ úre hláford ús swá micles falses? 44, 7.

  • Gif gé scyld on eów witen ðæs ðe eów man tíhþ,

      Txts. 176, 10; Rtl. 114, 23: Exon. Th. 345, 13; Gn. Ex. 187.

  • Týhþ,

      Cd. Th. 36, 33; Gen. 581.

  • Ic eom unscyldig æt ðære tihtlan ðe N. mé tíhþ (týhþ,

      MS. B.), L. O. 5; Th. i. 180, 16.

  • Hý teóþ ðé ðæs ðe hý sylfe habbaþ,

      Prov. Kmbl. 12.

  • Hé teáh hiene ðæt hé his ungerisno sprǽce wið ða senatos he (Philip)

    charged him (Demetrius, his son) that he had spoken disparagingly of him to the senate,

      Ors. 4, 11; Swt. 206, 28.

  • Ðá tugon hié hiene, ðæt hé heora swicdómes wið Alexander fremmende wǽre, and hiene for ðære tihtlan ofslógon,

      4, 5; Swt. 168, 16.

  • Gif hine hwá hwelces teó,

      L. Alf. pol. 17; Th. i. 72, 6: 11; Th. i. 68, 19: L. In. 30; Th. i. 120, 18.

  • Gif hine man ǽniges þinges teó,

      L. C. S. 31; Th. i. 394, 28.

  • Gif hine mon tió gewealdes on ðære dǽde,

      L. Alf. pol. 36; Th. i. 84, 15: 31; Th. i. 80, 16.

  • Gif man ðone hláford teó, ðæt hé be his rǽde út hleópe,

      L. C. S. 30; Th. i. 394, 19.

  • Gyf hine þreó men ætgædere teón,

      Th. i. 392, 23.

  • Se man ðe man tuge

    the man who shall have been accused,

      L. Ath. iv. 6; Th. i. 224, 15.

  • Gif hwá óðerne tión wille, ðæt hé hwelcne ne gelǽste ðara ðe hé him gesealde,

      L. Alf. pol. 33; Th. i. 82, 5.
Etymology
[Goth. teihan to show; O. Sax. af-tíhan to refuse: O. H. Ger. zíhan arguere: Ger. zeihen to accuse: Icel. tjá (wk.) to shew; cf. tiginn distinguished.]
Similar entries
v. be-teón; teónd; tiht.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “teón.” 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/30346.

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