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wang

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
wang, es; m. . I. the word, which is almost confined to poetry, may be rendered by words denoting the surface of the ground taken in their most general sense,
field, plain, land, country, place
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  • Wonge (wongc?)

    arvum,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 10, 51.

  • Mec se wǽta wong wundrum freórig of his innaþe cende

    roscida me genuit gelido de viscere tellus

    (Ald.),
    • Exon. Th. 417, 7
      • ;
    • Rä. 36, 1.

  • Se wong seomaþ eádig and onsund. Is ðæt æþele lond blóstmum geblówen, beorgas ðár ne muntas steápe ne standaþ . . . ne dene ne dalu

    illic planicies tractus diffundit apertos, nec tumulus crescit, nec cava vallis hiat,

    • Exon. Th. 199, 2
      • ;
    • Ph. 19.

  • Wlitig is se wong . . . ǽnlíc is ðæt íglond,

    • 198, 8
      • ;
    • Ph. 7.

  • Wynsum wong, wealdas gréne,

    • 198, 20
      • ;
    • Ph. 13.

  • Se hálga wong

    Paradise,

    • 227, 5
      • ;
    • Ph. 418.

  • Brúcan wonges, . . . neótan londes frætwa,

    • 268, I
      • ;
    • Ph. 149.

  • Hwæþere him ðæs wonges wyn (cf. londes wyn, 130, 15; Gú. 438) sweðrade

    whether the land grew less delightful to him,

    • 123, 15
      • ;
    • Gú. 123.

  • Ic ða stówe ne can ne ðæs wanges (

    the place where the cross was buried)

    wiht ne ða wísan cann,
    • Elen. Kmbl. 1364
      • ;
    • El. 684.

  • On ðam wange, ðǽr hé sorge gefremede

    on the scene of his wrong-doings,

    • Beo. Th. 4010
      • ;
    • B. 2003.

  • Hí geségon wyrm on wonge licgean

    he saw the serpent lying on the ground,

    • 6070
      • ;
    • 3039.

  • On wonge, wæterýðum neáh,

    • 4476
      • ;
    • B. 2242.

  • Cd. Th. 113,

    • 4
      • ;
    • Gen. 1882 : Exon. Th. 485, 21
      • ;
    • Rä. 72, 1.

  • Næs ðǽr hláfes wist werum on ðam wonge

    (the island of Mermedonia),

    • Andr. Kmbl. 43
      • ;
    • An. 22.

  • Hé sceal ðý wonge

    (the island in the fens where St. Guthlac's hermitage was)

    wealdan,
    • Exon. Th. 144, 6
      • ;
    • Gú. 674.

  • Hý ðone grénan wong ofgiefan sceoldan,

    • 130, 34
      • ;
    • Gú. 448.

  • Hé wang sceáwode fore burggeatum

    he reconnoitred the place,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 1678
      • ;
    • An. 841
      • :
    • Beo. Th. 2831
      • ;
    • B.1413: 4809
      • ;
    • B. 2409: 6139
      • ;
    • B. 3073.

  • Hí on wang stigon

    they landed,

    • 456
      • ;
    • B. 225.

  • Ofer wong faran

    to go across country,

    • Exon. Th. 481, 10
      • ;
    • Rä. 65, 1.

  • Hryre wong gecrong

    the ruin sank to earth,

    • 477, 30
      • ;
    • Ruin. 32.

  • Ðone wlitigan wong

    Paradise,

    • 228, 16
      • ;
    • Ph. 439.

  • Wangas blóstmum blówaþ

    fields bloom with flowers,

    • Menol. Fox 178
      • ;
    • Men. 90.

  • Wangas gréne,

    • 410
      • ;
    • Men. 206.

  • Ðás foldan bearm, gréne wongas,

    • Exon. Th. 482, 21
      • ;
    • Rä. 67, 5: Cd. Th. 100, 1
      • ;
    • Gen. 1657.

  • Wangas, eorðe ælgréno,

    • Met. 20, 77
      • :
    • Exon. Th. 51, 5
      • ;
    • Cri. 811: 451, 32
      • ;
    • Dóm. 112.

  • Him wíc curon, ðǽr him wlitebeorhte wongas geþúhton,

    • Cd. Th. 108, 11
      • ;
    • Gen. 1804: Beo. Th. 4915
      • ;
    • B. 2462.

  • Sum con wonga bígong, wegas wídgielle

    one knows the world, ways wide-spreading,

    • Exon. Th. 42, 30
      • ;
    • Cri. 680.

  • Dæg se georstenlíca God besceáwede on wangum

    dies hesterna Deum conspexit in arvis,

    • Hymn. Surt. 47, 10.

  • On sumeres tíd stincaþ on stówum, wynnum æfter wongum wyrta geblówene,

    • Exon. Th. 178, 24
      • ;
    • Gú. 1249.

  • Cumaþ wæstm on wangas weorðlíc on hwǽtum

    convalles abundabunt frumento,

    • Ps. Th. 64, 14.

  • Ic foldan slíte, gréne wongas,

    • Exon. Th. 393, 18
      • ;
    • Rä. 13, 2.

  • Wíde geond wongas,

    • 491, 8
      • ;
    • Rä. 80, 11.

  • II.

    the earth, the surface of the earth :-- Ic (creation) eorþan eom ǽghwǽr brǽdre, and wídgelra ðonne ðes wong gréna (cf. O. Sax. gróni wang the earth ),

    • Exon. Th. 426, 34
      • ;
    • Rä. 41, 83.

  • Cýþan werum on wonge,

    • 414, 2
      • ;
    • Rä. 32, 14: 439, 11
      • ;
    • Rä. 59, 2.

  • Seó heá miht on ðysne wang ástág,

    • Blickl. Homl. 105, 14.

  • Ðú eorðan wang ealne gesettest,

    • Hy. 10, 3.

  • Se Ælmihtiga eorþan worhte wlitebeorhtne wang,

    • Beo. Th. 186
      • ;
    • B. 93.

  • Gangan ofer foldan wang,

    • Menol. Fox 225
      • ;
    • Men. 114.
  • III. fig. of any surface

    Ic (

    a cup for cupping)

    eom stíð and steáp wong, staþol wæs in þá wyrta wlitetorhtra,
    • Exon. Th. 484, 4
      • ;
    • Rä. 70, 2.
Etymology
[Casteles and tunes, wodes and wonges, Havel. 397. Wonge of londe territorium, Prompt. Parv. 532.
Goth. waggs paradisus (2 Cor. 12, 4)
:
O. Sax. wang field, plain, country
:
O. H. Ger. holz-wang campus nemoreus
:
Icel. vangr (poet.) field
.]
Similar entries
v. beadu-, deáð-, fold-, freoðo-, græs-, grund-, medu-, metud-, sǽ-, sǽl-, sige-, stán-, staþol-, stede-, wæl-, wil-wang, neorxna wang, and wang-turf.
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v.  ge-wenge wencge wenge wange.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wang.” 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/34644.

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