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Wright's OE grammar
§34; §471; §636;
add: (1 a α) with a possessive pronoun instead of genitive, and with noun inflexion
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  • Gelícode mé ꝥ ic eówerne sum mé tó begeáte,

      Hml. S. 33, 109.
2.
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with reference to number, one (of),
some (of)
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  • Hé bebeád sumum his preóste

    (cuidam de clericis sui),

      Bd. 4, 16; Sch. 426, 2.

  • Sume þá óðre,

      Ll. Th. ii. 376, 30.
with reference to quantity,
some (of)
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  • Heó sumne hire líchaman bewǽfde,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 793.

  • Sume ðás race wé habbað getrahtnod on óðre stówe,

      Hml. Th. ii. 264, 23.
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  • Æt sumum twám cirron, æt óþrum cierre beeástan Wæced, æt óþrum cierre æt Portlocan,

      Chr. 918; P. 98, 27.

  • Nam hé mid him sumne dǽl feós, swá micel swá hit mihte beón, ðeáh swilce hit wǽre sum twá and sixtig penega, Hml. S. 23, 474. (4 a)

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    :-- Wurdon ofslagene sume þreó þúsend,
      Hml. S. 25, 357.
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  • Sume (-ae) daeli (dǽli)

    partim,

      Txts. 84, 731.

  • Ðeáh hé mæge sume (= sume dǽle) his willan ongitan, þonne ne mæg hé eallne,

      Bt. 39, 9; F. 226, 7.

  • Þá gesæt hé sume dæge under sunnbeáme,

      Hml. Th. ii. 134, 25.

  • Fulsóð hý secgað sumera þinga,

      Ll. Th. ii. 344, 23 n.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sum.” 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/58697.

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