wiga
- noun [ masculine ]
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Wiga
heros,
- Ælfc. Gr. 9, 31; Zup. 57, 11.
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Wiga oððe wígstrang
bellipolens,
- Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 45.
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Iung wiga
tyro,
i.- 18, 16.
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Wiga wintrum geong,
- Byrht. Th. 137, 62; By. 210.
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Wælreów wiga (
Beowulf
),- Beo. Th. 1262; B. 629.
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Wiga ellenróf,
- Wald. 79; Vald. 2, 11.
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Wác wiga,
- Exon. Th. 290, 18; Wand. 67.
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Wigan wígheardne,
- Byrht. Th. 133, 64; By. 75: Cd. Th. 189, 22; Exod. 188.
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Wigan unforhte, módige twégen,
- Byrht. Th. 134, 5; By. 79.
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Wigan on gewinne,
- 140, 42; By. 302: Cd. Th. 197, 23; Exod. 311: 219, 22; Dan. 58.
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Ðǽr wigan sittaþ on beórsele blíðe ætsomne, Runic pm. Kmbl. 342,
- 4; Rún. 14.
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Wigena æscberendra,
- Cd. Th. 123, 6; Gen. 2040.
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Wigena mænieo,
- 216, 12; Dan. 5.
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Wigena strengest(
Beowulf
),- Beo. Th. 3091; B. 1543.
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Hí sendon máran sciphere strengran wihgena
mittitur classis prolixior armatorum,
- Bd. 1, 15; S. 483, 16.
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Wigum and wǽpnum, Beo. Th. 4779; B. 2395. ¶ in phrases denoting a chief or leader :-- Wigena hláford (
Byrhtnoth
),- Byrht. Th. 135, 49; By. 135.
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Wigena baldor (
Holofernes
),- Judth. Thw. 22, 5; Jud. 49.
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Dauid cyning, wigena baldor,
- Elen. Kmbl. 688; El. 344.
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Wigena hleó ... wigena weard (
Constantine
),- Elen. 300-306; El. 150-153.
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Wigena strengel (
Beowulf), Beo. Th. 6222; B. 3115. Similarly the Deity is called wigena wyn, Exon. Th. 281, 4; Jul. 641. Ia. used of that which destroys :-- Wiga wælgifre (death ),
- Exon. Th. 162, 7; Gú. 972: 231, 8; Ph. 486.
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Wiga unlæt láces,
- 164, 4; Gú. 1006.
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Fýr swearta lég, weallende wiga,
- 61, 15; Cri. 985.
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Wiga (
a dog? fire?
) is on eorþan wundrum ácenned,- 433, 23; Rä. 51, 1.
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Se ðe mid wætere oferwearp wuldres cynebearn, wiga weorþlíce,
- Menol. Fox 317; Men. 160.
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Wigan unsláwne (
St. Andrew
),- Andr. Kmbl. 3419; An. 1713.
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Wigena tíd (
the day of St. Simon and St. Jude
),- Menol. Fox 370; Men. 186.
Bosworth, Joseph. “wiga.” 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/35627.
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