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wægn

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
wægn, wægen, wǽn, es; m.
A waggon, wain, carriage, vehicle
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  • Wægn

    vehiculum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 123, 40.
  • Wǽn plaustrum, Wrt. Voc. i. 66, 51: 284, 43: plaustrum vel

    carrum,

      16, 19: 85, 69.
  • Mid ðý hé ðá se wǽn (wægn, MS. T.) com ðe man ða bán on lǽdde

    cum venisset carrum in quo ossa ducebantur,

      Bd. 3, 11; S. 535, 17 note. Hé
    ofer wǽg gewát, wǽn æfter ran, Runic pm. Kmbl. 343, 32; Rún. 22.
  • Wægnes hweól

    rotam,

      Ps. Th. 82, 10.
  • Wǽnes weð (swæd? pæð?)

    orbita,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 47.
  • Ánes wǽnes gangweg

    actus,

      37, 37.
  • On wǽnes eaxe hwearfaþ ða hweól, and sió eax byrþ eallne ðone wǽn,

      Bt. 39, 7; Fox 220, 27: 39, 8; Fox 224, 6.
  • Wǽne

    carruca,

      Hpt. Gl. 438, 67.
  • Mid ðý ðe hine mon bere oþþe on wǽne ferige,

      Lchdm. ii. 30, 29.
  • Stígan on wægn,

      Exon. Th. 404, 17; Rä. 23, 9.
  • Hí gegearwodon wægen (

    carrum

    ) and on ásetton ða fǽmnan,
      Bd. 3, 9; S. 534, 9.
  • Wæs gold on wǽn hladen,

      Beo. Th. 6260; B. 3134.
  • Twégra wǽna gangweg

    via,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 38.
  • Tuégra uuegna gang (v. wægn-gang),

      Cod. Dip. B. i. 344, 12.
  • On wǽnum

    in curribus,

      Ps. Spl. 19, 8.
  • Ðæt hig nymon wǽnas (plaustra), Gen. 45, 19, 27. ¶ with special reference to what is carried, in the phrase

    wægnes, wægna gang,

    the going to fetch wood, v. Kemble's Saxons in
      England, ii. pp, 70, 71 :-- .ii.
    wéna gang mid cyninges wénum tó Bleán ðem wiada (cf. .iiii. carris transductionem in silba regis sex ebdomades a die Pentecosten, hubi alteri hommes silbam cedunt, 122, 8), Chart. Th. 119, 16.
  • An ic twéga wǽna gang on clætinc tó wudurédenne,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 36, 15.
    [Tuége waine gong wudes, iv. 282, 15.
  • Tó wayne gong tó wude,

      282, 28.
    ] ¶ referring to the constellation Charles' wain. v. carles wǽn :-- Wǽnes ðísl (waegne[s] þíxl, 100, 72)

    archtoes,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 7, 23.
  • Tunglu ðe wé hátaþ wǽnes ðísla,

      Bt. 39, 3; Fox 214, 19: Met. 28, 10.
Etymology
[O. L. Ger. reidi-wagan currus: O. Frs. wain, wein: O. H. Ger. wagan plaustrum, carra, carrum, vehiculum: Icel. vagn.]
Similar entries
v. fyrd-, hors-, hræd-, rǽd-, ryne-, scrid-, wíg-wægn (-wǽn).
Linked entries
v.  wægen waegne-þíxl wǽn.
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