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Wright's OE grammar
§315; §349;
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amusement, mirth
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  • Hé sceal þonan geómor hweorfan, þám bið gomenes wana þe þá earfeða dreogeð on sárgum sefan,

    • Gú. 1328
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  • Ðú dwollíce leofast swylce þé tó gamenes.

    • Hml. A. 6, 141.

  • Dyde ic mé tó gomene ganetes hleóðor,

    • Scef. 20.

  • Hý sceolon habban him gomen on borde,

    • Gn. Ex. 183.

  • Hé álegde gamen and gleódreám,

    • B. 3021.
jest, game (in to make game of)
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  • Ic sceal habban mé ðæt tó gamene

    subsannabo

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    • Past. 249, 1.

  • Þæt hí him tó gamene gedydon

    what they made a jest of

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    • Hml. Th. ii. 254, 4.

  • Þæt gé eów tó gamene feónda áfillað swá fela swá gé reccað.

    • Wlfst. 132, 20.
a game, pastime
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  • Sum bið swíðsnel, hafað searolic gomen (dancing and tumbling? cf. sealting), gleódǽda gife for gumþegnum, leóht and leoðu-wác,

    • Crä. 82.

  • Gamena angin

    ludorum gesticulatio

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    • An. Ox. 2871.

  • Sleglicum gamena gamene

    scenico ludorum joco

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    • 2886.

  • Man geswíce freólsdagum hǽðenra leóþa and deófles gamena,

    • Ll. Th. ii. 248, 12.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gamen.” 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/46927.

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