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stefn, voice.
Wright's OE grammar
§81; §219; §293; §369;
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of sound proceeding from the mouth of a living creature
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  • Swelce sió godcunde stefn (stemn,

    v. l.

    ) tó him cwǽde,
      Past. 122, 7.

  • Sáwla sóðfæste hergað cyninges þrym stefn æfter stefne,

      Ph. 542.

  • Cyning spræc him stefne tó,

      Gen. 2848.

  • Engel stefne ábeád, torhtan reorde,

      Dan. 510.

  • Hóf hlúde stefne lifigendra leód,

      Exod. 276.

  • Ongan hé mid mycelre stefne (

    voce magna) hlýdan . . . Tó þæs þám manigfealdum and ungefóhlicum stefnum (hreáme, v. l.) se biscop cóm (ad cujus voces episcopus venit ),

      Gr. D. 64, 28.

  • Wæterfrocgan hrímað hlúdum stefnum,

      Chrd. 96, 29.

  • Hig stódon feorran and hyra stefna úp áhófon,

      Lk. 17, 13.
of sound produced with an instrument
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  • Heofonbýman stefn,

      Cri. 949.
of sound made by inanimate objects
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  • Geómen cwǽdon ꝥ ðrittegum geárum ne gestilde nǽfre stefen cearciendes wǽnes and ceoriendes wales,

      Lch. iii. 430, 33.

  • Stefn þunurráda þínre

    uox tonitrui tui,

      Ps. Rdr. 76, 19.

  • Úp áhófon flódas stefna (

    uoces

    ) heora, fram stefnum wætera manigra,
      92, 3-4.

  • Þá stefna þæs lyftes,

      Angl. viii. 313, 14.
where an impression is produced on the mind like that which might be produced by words
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  • Ne synd spræca ne word, þára ne sýn gehýred stefna heora,

      Ps. Rdr. 18, 4.
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  • Hí synd þreóra cynna ná on stemne, ac on andgite,

      Ælfc. Gr. Z. 94, 12.
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v. riht-stefn.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “stefn.” 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/58517.

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