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be-gang

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
be-gang, be-gong, bi-gang, bi-gong, bi-gencg, es ; m. [be, gang a step, proceeding].
Wright's OE grammar
§12; §563;
a course, way, passage, circuit, district; cursus, via, tenor, circuitus
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  • Ofer geofenes begang

    over the course of ocean

    • Beo. Th. 729
      • ;
    • B. 362.

  • Holma begang

    the passage of the deeps

    • Andr. Kmbl. 390
      • ;
    • An. 195.

  • Gársecges begang

    the circuit of ocean

    • 1059
      • ;
    • An. 530.
an undertaking, a business, exercise, service, religious worship; negotium, exercitatio, cultus
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  • Ða willnode he hyne sylfne fram eallum begangum ðisse worulde fremde gedón

    cupivit se ab omnibus sæculi hujus negotiis alienare

    • Bd. 3, 19
      • ;
    • S. 549, 38.

  • On bigange ðæs áncorlífes

    in exercenda vita solitaria

    • 5, 1
      • ;
    • S. 613, 9.

  • Ðæt heó móste healdan ðone geleáfan and bigong hire ǽfestnysse

    ut fidem cultumque suæ religionis servaret

    • 2, 9
      • ;
    • S. 510, 29 : 1, 7
      • ;
    • S. 477, 21 : Jos. 23, 7.

  • Bigencg

    observatio, studium

    • Scint. 7.
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v.  bi-gang bi-gencg bi-geng big-geng bi-gong be-gong.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “be-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/3416.

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  • be-gang, n.

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