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Add: : [For construction cf. feáwa.]
substantival
of number,
alone, a few persons or
things
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  • Ofer lytla ł huón ðú wére leáffull, ofer monigo ðec ic setto

    super pauca fuisti fidelis, super multa te constituam

    ,
      Mt. L. 25, 21.
with gen.
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  • Hrippes feolo, wyrcendra huón

    messis multa, operari pauci

    ,
      Lk. L. 10, 2.

  • Hiǽ hæfdum lytelra fisca hwón (huón, L.)

    habebant pisciculos paucos

    ,
      Mk. R. 8, 7.
of quantity,
a little,
alone
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  • Ádó ꝥ pic of, súpe hwón wearm,

      Lch. ii. 318, 5.

  • Dó on breówende wyrt, hwón,

      332, 22.
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  • Dó hwó;n sealtes tó,

      Lch. ii. 78, 2.

  • Hwón berenes melwes,

      322, 27.

  • Hwón wínes,

      344, 6.
adjectival
of number,
qualifying a noun
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  • Of seofa hláfum and hwón lytle fiscas (

    paucis pisciculis

    ),
      Mk. p. 3, 18.

  • Huón fiscðrútas

    paucos pisciculos

    ,
      Mt. 15, 34.
predicative
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  • Hrípes monigo, wercmenn huón

    messis multa, operarii pauci

    ,
      Mt. L. 9, 37.

  • Rípes feolu, wyrcende hwón,

      Lk. R. 10, 2.

  • Gif huón sint ðá ðe gihǽled biðon

    si pauci sunt qui saluantur

    ,
      13, 23.
of quantity,
little
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  • Gié huóno ł lytlo geleáfas (hwón ł lytle ł lǽssa gileófa, R.)

    uos pussilae fidei,

      Lk. L. 13, 28.
  • Lch. ii. 32, 3: 124, 22 (in Dict.).
adverbial,
local,
a little way
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  • Hine from eorða eft-lǽda huón eum a terra reducere pusillum, Lk. L. 5, 3. (1 a) in a phrase :-- Foerde þonan lytel hwón

    progressus inde pusillum

    ,
      Mk. R. L. 1. 19.
temporal,
a little while
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  • Lǽt þnne hwón gestandan,

      Lch. ii. 264, 27,
of degree,
a little, slightly
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  • Sete on gléda, gewyrm hwón,

      Lch. ii. 310, 4.

  • Swét hwón,

      318, 13 : 324, 6.

  • Man tó hwón stýrde þám þe syngodon,

      Wlfst. 168, 2.

  • Férde hé hwón feorr (

    paulo longius) fram þám mynstre, Gr. D. 28, 17. (3 a) in a negative phrase not at all, not in the least, in no wise :-- Ná tó þæs hwón (nullatenus )

    ne færst þú heonon, búton þú mínne sunu áwecce,
      Gr. D. 17, 20 : 38, 15 : 80, 27 : Hml. S. 30, 412.

  • Ne magon hí tó þæs hwón (

    nequaquam

    ) begitan þá þing þe him geteohhode nǽron,
      Gr. D. 54, 13.

  • Ná tó þes hwón

    minime

    ,
      An. Ox. 40, 5.

  • Ná-te-þes-hwón,

      4, 47.
  • v. átes-hwón, nátes-hwón.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hwón.” 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/53630.

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