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ymb-gang

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
ymb-gang, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§594;
a going round
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  • Seó burh (

    Jericho

    ) næs mid nánum wíge gewunnen, ac mid ðam ymgange,
      Homl. Th. ii. 216, 2.

  • Is ðære sunnan ymgang (ymbe-, ymb-,

    v. ll.

    ) hremming, ðæt se dæg ne byð on ǽlcum earde gelíce lang,
      Lchdm. iii. 258, 11.

  • Ǽlc mann, swá swá hé stód on ðam ymbgange,

      Jos. 6, 20.

  • Emgange

    abitum

    ( = ambitu,
      Ald. 73), Hpt. Gl. 522, 78.
a going about
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  • Embgong

    deambulacrum, circuitus.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 139, 82.
of extent traversed or measured,
circuit, circumference
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  • His ymbgong (

    ambitus

    ) is hundseofontig míla and seofeða dǽl ánre mile, . . . and bufan ðæm máran wealle ofer ealne ðone ymbgong hé is mid stǽnenum wíghúsum beworht,
      Ors. 2, 4; Swt. 74, 15-21.

  • Six hund fóta and feówertig seó cyrce wæs ymbeganges,

      Homl. Th. ii. 496, 35.

  • Ofer ymbgang

    supra pinnam

    (cf. pinnaculum, circuitus templi,
      71, 69), Wrt. Voc. ii. 74, 41.

  • Læssan ymbgang hæfð se mann ðe gǽð ábútan án hús, ðonne se ðe ealle ða burh begǽð,

      Lchdm. iii. 248, ii.
of position, on ymbgange
about, around
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  • Ealle ðe on ymbegonge hys synd

    omnes qui in circuitu ejus sunt,

      Ps. Spl. T. 88, 8.

  • On ymbgeonge,

      Rtl. 178, 31.
a winding course, bend
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  • Ymbgongum anfractibus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 53. V a. figurative :-- Ymbgeong

    decursum,

      Mt. Kmbl. p. 12, 14.
a going about a business, v. ymb,
3 d
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  • Hiora in spréc ðone ymbgeong cýðaþ

    eorum in foro ambitum notat,

      Mk. Skt. p. 5, 5.
Etymology
[In umgang in circuitu, Ps. 11, 9: circum, 30, 14. Þat was of umgang (abowte, v. l.) thre iorne, C. M. 9192. O. H. Ger. umbi-gang circuitus, ambitus, deambulacrum, circulus, conversio: Icel. um-gangr circuit; management,]
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v. embe-gang.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ymb-gang.” 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/37131.

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