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ge-wær

  • verb
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Substitute: ge-wær in the phrase gewær (indecl. cf. wurðan thes firiho barn giwar,
    Hél. 3641. Uuir knadon geuuar uuorden sín, Notker 38, 9) weorþan to become aware of (gen. )
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  • Þá fundon hí óðre flocráde ꝥ rád út wið Lígtúnes; and þá wurdon þá landleóde his gewær (

    the natives became aware of it

    ),
      Chr. 914; P. 99, 5.
  • Feórde se eorl tówardes Tínemúðan, ac þá þe innan þám castele wǽron his gewær wurdon (

    became aware of it,

    i.e. the earl's march),
      1095; P. 231, 13.
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