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Wright's OE grammar
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  • Mid nigonum þára níwena scipa,

      Chr. 897; P. 90, 23. (1 a) with a pronoun :-- Ðæt wé tellan á .x.
    men tógædere, and se yldesta bewiste þá nigene, Ll. Th. i. 230, 23.
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  • Næs ná má þonne hundtwelftig on þǽm rǽdehere, and nigan on þám féðan,

      Ors. 3, 9 ; S. 124, 21.
    ] Þus feor sceal beón þæs cinges grið . . . . III. míla, .III. furlang . . . . IX. fóta . . . , .IX. berecorna, Ll. Th. i. 224, 9.Þára wæs án twelf geára, óþer nigan geára, and se þridda seofan geára, Shrn. 58. 11. (2 a) with a multiple of ten :-- Ofer nigon and hundnigontig ryhtwísra, Past. 411, 13.

  • Nigon and .xx. wintra,

      Chr. 973; P. 118, 23. (2 a α) with pronoun :-- Hé
    forlǽt þá nigon and hundnigontig, Mt. 18, 12.
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  • Niogen hund wintra,

      Angl. xi. 4, 21.

  • On nigon (nygan, v. l. ) mílum

    nouem ferme milibus passuum,

      Bd. 4, 27; Sch. 511, 7: Chr. 897; P. 91, 24.

  • Beó þǽr gemeten nygon fét of þám stacan tó þǽre mearce,

      Ll. Th. i. 226, 12.
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  • Þá nigon engla werod,

      Hml. Th. i. 12, 8.

  • Þá nygon nǽdran,

      Lch. iii. 36, 25: Ll. Th. i. 196, 25.
  • Hé ús benimeð þára nigon dǽla, 6.

  • Of þǽm nigon dǽlum,

      262, 15.

  • Þá nigan dǽlas,

      Bl. H. 51, 2.

  • Nigen,

      209, 27.
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  • On ðǽm nigon and hundsiofantigoðan sealme,

      Past. 413, 10: R. Ben. 37, 19 : Ps. Th. 29, arg. On
    þám nigon and þrittigoðan geáre, Chr. 1052; P. 173, 19.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “nigon.” 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/55933.

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