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þignen

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
þignen, þignenn, þínen[n], þinnen[n], e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§599;
a female servant, female attendant, handmaid
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  • Ðignen

    pedisequa,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 116, 63.
  • Þínen, i. 282, 15:

    ancilla,

    ii.
      4, 12.
  • Þínen, wyln abra, i. ancilla, i, 17, 26, Þýnen

    vernacula, servula, ancilla,

      Hpt. Gl. 498, 20.
  • Sum þínen (ðignen, Lind.)

    a certain maid,

      Lk. Skt. 22, 56.
  • Sió ðignen (ðegnen, Rush.) durehaldend

    ancilla ostiaria,

      Jn. Skt. Lind. 18, 17.
  • Ic eom Godes ðínen

    behold the handmaid of the Lord

    (Lk.
      1, 38), Homl. Th. i. 200, 10: Homl. Skt. ii. 23 b, 237.
  • Heó cwæð tó him: 'Ic eom deófles ðínen,

      Shrn. 140, 18.
  • Þínene

    ancillae,

      Gen. 35, 25, 26: Scint. 229, 6.
  • Þínenne,

      Ps. Lamb. 115, 6: 85, 16.
  • Þinnenre (-ne?),

      Ps. Spl. 85, 15.
  • Þinnenne

    abrâ,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 49.
  • Seó abbudisse eode mid ánre hire ðígnenne (

    cum una sanctimonialium feminarum) ... Ðá hét heó hire ðínenne (ministram )

    gán,
      Bd. 3, 11; S. 536, 18-27.
  • Þínenne,

      Judth. Thw. 24, 4; Jud. 172.
  • Heó hæfde áne þínene (

    ancillam

    ),
      Gen. 16, 1.
  • Áne hire þínena

    unam a famulabus suis,

      Ex. 2, 5.
  • Þínennum pedisequis, þínenna

    pedisequas,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 67, 9, 10.
  • Þínum

    vernaculis,

      Hpt. Gl. 523, 26.
  • Þínenne

    vernaculas,

      404, 56.
  • Þínena

    ancillas,

      Lk. Skt. 12, 45: Gen. 33, 2: Homl. Th. ii. 478, 10.
used with the meaning of byrþ-þignen,
a mid-wife
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  • Se cyning cwæþ tó ðám þínenum ðe ðám Ebréiscean wífun þénodon (

    obstetricibus Hebraeorum) ... Ða þínena (obstetrices )

    him ondrédon
      God, Ex. 1, 15, 17, 20, 21.
  • v. beorþor- (written broþor-), byrþ-, duru-, in-þignen (-þínen).
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v.  þegnen þínen.
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  • þignen, n.