Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

wefan

  • verb [ strong ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
wefan, p. wæf, pl. wǽfon; pp. wefen.
Wright's OE grammar
§80; §93; §263; §293; §505;
to weave a web
Show examples

  • Ic wefe

    texo,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 59, 47.

  • Ðú wyfst and wǽda tylast,

      Homl. Th. i. 488, 25.

  • Ðín wyln wefð

    tui ancilla texit,

      Ælfc. Gr. 15 ; Zup. 104, 13.

  • Webbu swá hwylc swá wyfð,

      Lchdm. iii. 210, 28.

  • Hí smalo hrægel wefaþ and wyrceaþ

    texendis subtilioribus indumentis operam dant,

      Bd. 4, 25 ; S. 601, 16.

  • Ða of ðæs treówes leáfum and of his flýse spunnon and swá eác tó godewebbe wǽfon and worhtan

    gens foliis arborum ex siluestri uellere uestes detexunt,

      Nar. 6, 19.
  • Ðá onféng Maria hwít godweb tó wefanne . . . Ðá sprǽcon hí: 'þú eart úre gingast, ðe miht wefan ðæt hwíte gode*-*web,' Homl. Ass. 132, 550.

  • Wefen wæs

    ordiretur (colobium de stuppae stamine,

      Ald. 51), Wrt. Voc. ii. 83, 18.

  • From ðæm weofendan

    a texente,

      Ps. Surt. ii. p. 184, 34.

  • Fram wefendum wífe,

      Cant. Ez. 12.
in a more general sense, lit. or fig.
to weave, construct, put together, arrange, plan, contrive
Show examples

  • Swá ðæt wuldor wifeþ,

      Exon. Th. 493, 8 ; Rä. 81, 27.

  • Ðus ic fród wordcræft wæf and wundrum læs,

      Elen. Kmbl. 2473 ; El. 1238.

  • Ic wef

    intexui (funibus lectulum meum,

      Prov. 7, 16), Kent. Gl. 199.

  • Wefan

    contexere (coronam ),

      Hpt. Gl. 439, 68.

  • Wefan

    texuisse (oraculorum seriem),

      442, 39.

  • Ðæs engles mód ðe ðone unrǽd ongan ǽrest fremman, wefan and weccean,

      Cd. Th. 3, 5 ; Gen. 31.

  • Ðonne seó þrág cymeþ wefen wyrdstafum,

      Exon. Th. 183, 10; Gú. 1325.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. weban : Icel. vefa. Cf. Goth. bi-waibjan to wind about.]
Similar entries
v. á-, be-, ge-wefan; þyn-wefen.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “wefan.” 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/34960.

Checked: 0
Full form

Word-wheel

  • wefan, v.

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.