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hund-twelftig

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Wright's OE grammar
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as substantive [in which case the word may be treated as singular, v. Ors. S. 174,
    17; or as plural, v. Hml. S. 21, 318
].
governing a genitive,
alone
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  • Cyninges burgbryce bið . c.xx. (hundtwelftig,

    v. l.

    ) sciłł. ,
      Ll. Th. i. 88, 7.

  • Heó wæs hundtwelftiges fóta lang,

      Ors. 4, 6 ; S. 174, 17.

  • Ánra gehwylc godweb hangað on hundtwelftigum hringa gyldenna. And ðæt æreste godweb is háten

    Aurum caeleste,

    ðǽm ðióstre ne magon cxxtigum míla neáh gehleonian,
      Sal. K. 152, 17-20.

  • Mid hundtwelftigan sciłł. . . . mid sixtigan scillinga,

      Ll. Th. i. 342, 2 ; 410, 9.

  • Be .cxx. (hundtwelftigum,

    v. l.

    ) hída, no, 17:
      198, 23.

  • Gylde hé þám cynge hundtwelftig scillinga (sciłł. ,

    v. l.

    ),
      264, 12: 62, 5: 66, 16: 86, 17.

  • Cómon tó ðám hálgan hundtwelftig manna, mislíce geuntrumode,

      Hml. S. 21, 318.
with units
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  • Hundtwelftig scíra hé hie. de and seofon scíra,

      Hml. A. 92, 6.
as adjective.
alone
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  • Hé bodode húru hundtwelftigum wintrum,

      Wlfst. 206, 8.

  • Mid . c.xx. (hundtwelftig,

    v. l.) sciłł. (scillingum, v. l, ),

      Ll. Th. 1. 110, 12.
with units
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  • Mid óþrum fíf and hundtwelftigum his efenbisceopum

    cum aliis cxxv episcopis,

      Bd. 5, 19; Sch. 666, 24.
where the governed or qualified noun is not expressed
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  • Wæs ungemetlic wæl geslagen Persa, and Alexandres næs ná má þonne hundtwelftig on þǽm rǽdehere,

      Ors. 3, 9; S. 124, 21.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hund-twelftig.” 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/53377.

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