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up-gang

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
up-gang, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§590;
a going up, rising of a heavenly body
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  • Sunnon upgong æt middan sumere

    ortus solis solstitialis,

      Bd. 5, 12; S. 627, 34.

  • Æfter sunnan upgonge,

      L. Alf. 25; Th. i. 50, 20.

  • Ǽr sunnan upgange,

      Lchdm. ii. 306, 17.

  • Æt sunnan upgonge,

      Nar. 27, 17.

  • Fram sunnan upgange óð hire setlgang,

      Ps. Th. 49, 2: 112, 3.

  • Uppgange,

      106, 3.

  • Tóforan mónan upgonge,

      Nar. 13, 9.

  • Hí (

    the constellations of the zodiac

    ) gefyllaþ twá tída mid hyra upgange oððe nyðergange,
      Lchdm. iii. 246, 8.
a going up,
to land from sea, a landing. v. up, I. a 1
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  • Hí forwerndon heom ǽgðer ge upganges ge wæteres,

      Chr. 1046; Erl. 171, 5.
from the coast inland,
an incursion
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  • Hí námon him wintersettl on Temesan ... Ðá æfter middan wintra hí námon ǽnne upgang út þurh Ciltern and swá tó Oxneforda. 1009; Erl. 143, 9.
a way of going up
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  • Hié gerýmdon ðone upgang and geworhtan,

      Blickl. Homl. 201, 17.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. úf-gang ortus: Ger. auf-gang: Icel. upp-gangr: Dan. op-gang ascent; stairs.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “up-gang.” 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/34050.

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  • up-gang, n.

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