Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

mótan

Dictionary links
add:
expressing permission or possibility that comes from permission. I a. add:
the subject a person
Show examples

  • Eálá hú yfele mé dóþ manege woruldmenn mid ðám ꝥ ic ne mót wealdan mínra ágenra þeówa

    an ego sola meum jus exercere prohibebor ?

    ,
      Bt. 7, 3; F. 20, 20.

  • Bið þé God hold . . . and þú móst (

    poteris

    ) mid him rícsian,
      Ll. Th. ii. 132, 16.

  • Wóst þú genóh gif ic gedó þæt þuacute; þæt wóst, þæt þú móst simle lybban ?

    quid, cum te immortalem esse didiceris, satisne erit ?

    ,
      Solil. H. 56, 10.

  • Gif þé ǽfre gewyrð ꝥ ðú wilt oððe móst eft fandian þára þióstra þisse worulde

    si terrarum placeat tibi noctem relictam visere

    ,
      Bt. 36, 3; S. 105, 25.

  • Hú mǽg sé beón gessǽlig, sé ðe on ðám gesǽlþum ðurhwunian ne mót, 2 ; F. 4, 15. þǽr ic nú móste (

    was permitte) þín mód gefiþerigan . . . ꝥ þuacute; mihtest (wast able )

    mid mé fliógan,
      36, 2 ; F. 174, 6. þá bǽdon hí
    í

  • God sealde frídom manna sáulum, þæt hý móston dón swá good swá yfel. swædðer hý woldon,

      Solil. H. 10, 18.

  • Gedó mé þæs wyrðne, þæt ic þé móte geseón

    fac me idoneum ad videndum te

    ,
      13, 15.

  • Þæt þú ne móte began þæt þæt þú wilnast,

      46, 12.
the subject a thing : where the natural processes in connection with an object are given
Show examples

  • Se heofon mót brengan leóhte dagas, . . . ꝥ geár mót brengan blósman, . . . seó sǽ mót brúcan smyltra ýþa, and ealle gesceafta mótan heora gewunan and heora willan bewitigan. Bt. 7,

      3; F. 20, 20-24.

  • Me mæig, gif hit mót gewiderian (granted good weather), mederan settan, Angl. ix. 262, 9. ꝥ se stemn and se helm móte þý fæstor and þý leng standon, Bt. 34, 10; F. 148, 33. I b 2. add :-- Hé gesealde Persum . . . healfe Mesopotamiam wiþ þǽm þe hié of þǽm londe mósten búton láþe

    ut tutum et incolumem exercitum a locorum periculo liberaret, partem Mesopotamiae Persis concessit,

      Ors. 6, 32 ; S. 286, 27.
Add
Show examples

  • Gif man eard wille rihtlíce clǽnsian, þonne mót man spyrian hwár þá mánfullan wununge habban,

      Ll. Th. i. 348, 25: 380, 8.

  • Wé móton þencan (ús is tó geþencanne,

    v. l.

    ),
      196, 23.

  • Drihten, hǽle ús: wé móton forweorðan

    Domine, salva nos, perimus

    ,
      Mt. 8, 25.

  • Móton þá hyrdas beón swíðe wacore,

      Ll. Th. i. 374, 27: 344, 27.

  • Unðeáwas ðe hé ǽr ne cúðe wunnon him ðá on and on his cynne syððan, swá þæt hí móston mid micclum geswince ðá gódan ðeáwas healdan, gif hý hí habban woldon,

      Hex. 26, 5. II a.
    .
as an auxiliary
Show examples

  • Gif woe geslás ł huoeðer móto wé geslaa (sleá wé, W. S.) si percutimus, Lk. L. 22, 49. ꝥ wlóh wédes his gehríne móston (móstun æthrínan, R., æthrinon, W. S.)

    ut fimbriam vestimenti ejus tangerent

    ,
      Mt. 14,36.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “mótan.” 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/55607.

Checked: 0
Full form

Word-wheel

  • mótan,

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.