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wana

  • noun [ masculine ]
  • adjective
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wana, an; m.
want, lack, absence
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  • Mé ys feós- wana deest mihi pecunia, Ælfc. Gr. 32 ;

    Zup.

      202, 12.

  • Hláfes wæs wana

    panis deerat,

      Gen. 47, 13.

  • Ðonne wana (wona, Hatt. MS. ) bið ðæs ðe hié habban woldon

    hae cum desunt,

      Past. 18 ; Swt. 126, 22.

  • Hit nan mon ne mæg eall habban, ðæt him ne sié sumes þinges wana,

      Bt. 34, 9; Fox 146, 19.

  • Ðu mǽnst gif ðé ǽnies willan wana biþ,

      II, I ; Fox 30, 22: 26, 1; Fox 90, 22 : 29, I; Fox 102, 18.

  • Ðonne is sum gód full ǽlces willan and nis nánes gódes wana,

      34, I; Fox 134, 27 : Homl. Th. i. 272, 13: ii. 400, 11: Ps. Th. 33, 9: Shrn. 202, 11.

  • Gif hwæm ðara twégra hwæðeres wana biþ,

      Bt. 36, 3; Fox 176, 7.

  • Ðam bið gomenes wana ðe ða earfeða dreógeþ,

      Exon. Th. 183, 17; Gú. 1328.

  • Mé is wana æt ðam scýrgesceatte ðus micelys ðe míne foregengan hæfdon,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 327, 4.

  • Swá ic feós bidde swá ic wanan hæbbe ðæs ðe mé N. behét (

    I have not got what N. promised me),

      L. O. 10; Th. i. 182, 7.

  • I a. in connection with numerals. v. wana ; adj. III a :-- Hire daga rím gefylled wæs, ðæt is ánes geáres wana sixtigra wintra (

    there wanted one year of sixty;

    undesexaginta annorum),
      Bd. 3, 24; S. 557, 6 note.
want of necessaries, lack, want, defect
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  • Dispendium, i. damnum, impedimentum, defectio, periculum, detrimentum æfwerdla, wonung, wom, wana,

    vel

    hénþa.
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 140, 69.

  • Wanan

    inopiam

    (cum panis copia plebis inopiam refocillantes,
      Aid. 53), Hpt. Gl. 497, 26.
Etymology
[Ðet ich þurh to muche wone ne falle i fulðe of sunne . . . ðet ich mote underuon boðe wone and weole þe ine cwemnesse, O. E. Homl. i. 213, 28-32. And tah þu wone hefdest oðer drehdest ani derf, H. M. 29, 8. Uor wone of witnesse, A. R. 68, 8.]
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v. for-wana ; wan.
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v.  ge-wana wan wan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wana.” 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/34624.

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