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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
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  • .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
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  • 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.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “wægn.” 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/34271.

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