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wé, pron.
Wright's OE grammar
§95; §144; §252; §459; §462;
We.
used of more than one person,
dual
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  • Ic and ðæt cild gáð unc tó gebiddenne and wé syððan cumaþ eft tó eów,

      Gen. 22, 5.
  • Wé willaþ ðæt ðú ús dó swá hwæt swá wé biddaþ (cf. wyt magon, v. 39),

      Mk. Skt. 10, 35.
plural
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  • Hwí fæste wé (woe,

      Lind.)? Mt. Kmbl. 9, 14.
  • Wé þonne synt ðe fylgeaþ

    it is we that follow,

      Blickl. Homl. 81, 33.
  • Wé men sculon,

      Exon. Th. 46, 33; Cri. 746.
  • Wé selfe cúþen,

      147, 7; Gú. 723.
  • Wé ealle wǽron ðé fylgende, and ðú eart úre ealra fultum ða ðe on ðé gelýfaþ,

      Blickl. Homl. 229, 20.
  • Uton wé ealle wynsumian on Drihten, wé ðe his ǽriste mǽrsiaþ, 91, 8: Getíþa ús ðæt ðe wé ðé ætforan ágyltan . . . anue nobis ut quê (qui has been glossed) te coram de*-*liquimus. . ., Hymn. Surt. 124, 30: Exon. Th. 2, 27; Cri. 25. (2 a) used by a king in reference to himself and his counsellors :-- Wé

    (Ine and the witan)

    bebeódaþ,
      L. In. 1; Th. i. 102, 14.
  • (Alfred)

    lǽraþ,
      L. Alf. pol. 1; Th. i. 60, 2.
  • (Athelstan)

    cwǽdon,
      L. Ath. i. 2 ; Th. i. 200, 5.
  • (Cnut)

    willaþ,
      L. C. E. 6; Th. i. 364, 5.
used of one person,
by a writer or speaker
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  • Nú hæbbe wé scortlíce gesǽd (cf. Scortlíce ic hæbbe nú gesǽd,

      10, 3), Ors. 1,1; Swt. 14, 26: 22, 1: 24, 23.
  • Swá wé ǽr cwǽdon (cf. swá ic ǽr cwæþ,

      8, 14), 24, 32.
  • Wé mihton ðás rǽdinge menigfealdlícor trahtnian,

      Homl. Th. i. 556, 13.
  • Hwæt wille wé eów swíðor secgan be ðisum symbeldæge, ii. 444, 13: Blickl. Homl. 115, 28.
by a prince
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  • Beówulf maþelode : ' Wé ðæt ellenweorc fremedon',

      Beo. Th. 1920; B. 958: 3308; B. 1652.
v. ús, wit.]
Etymology
[Goth. weis: O. Sax. O. Frs. wí: O. H. Ger. wir: Icel. vér.]
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v.  ús.
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