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ge-feccan

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Substitute: ge-feccan, ge-fecgan to fetch,
to go in quest of and bring back,
the object a person
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  • Hé him hét tó wífe gefeccan Cleopatron

    Cleopatram sibi occurrere imperavit,

      Ors. 5, 13; S. 246, 1: Hml. S. 8, 9.

  • Héht Neron Petrus and Paulus tó þissum wǽferseónum gefeccean,

      Bl. H. 187, 15.

  • Gefæccan,

      Hml. S. 2, 197.

  • Hé mæg þá sáwle of sinnihte gefeccan,

      Sal. 69.
the object a thing
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  • Hát unmǽlne mon gefeccean healfne sester yrnendes wæteres,

      Lch. iii. 10, 31.
to go and get what one seeks,
obtain, get
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  • Hé woldegefeccan þá lytlan and gebringan úp tó his ríce,

      Hml. Th. i. 138, 5.

  • Nán Crísten mann ne sceal his hǽle gefeccan búton æt ðám Scyppende,

      470, 20.

  • Swá þá sculon þe hiora ǽfengifl on helle gefeccean sculon

    tamquam apud inferos coenaturi,

      Ors. 2, 5; S. 86, 2.

  • Hé wolde þæs beornes beágas gefecgan,

      By. 160.
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v. ge-fetian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-feccan.” 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/47905.

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