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ge-fandod

  • verb [ weak ]
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ge-fandod, Substitute: ge-fandian; p. ode
To try.
to examine, explore
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  • Hé þæt sóna onfand þæt hæfde gumena sum goldes gefandod, heáhgestreóna

    he soon found that some man had ransacked the treasure,

    • B. 2301.
to try whether. Cf. fandian
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  • Þæt hié mósten gefandian hweðer hié heora medsélða oferswíþan mehte,

    • Ors. 4, 4;
    • S. 164, 28.
to experience, taste. Cf. fandian
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  • Sé ðe ús oferdrencð mid ðæs écan lífes liðe, hé gefandode geallan biternesse ðá hine ðyrstte

    aeterna nos dulcedine inebrians in siti sua fellis amaritudinem accepit,

    • Past. 261, 15.

  • Ðá ðe gefandod habbað ðára flǽsclicra synna, ðá ðe ðæs nóht ne cunnon

    peccata carnis experta, eorum expertes,

    • 403, 7.

  • Þonne se án hafað þurh deáðes nýd dǽda gefondad,

    • B. 2454.
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v. un-gefandod.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-fandod.” 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/47891.

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