wénan
- adjective
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' Ne sint þá eágan þínes módes swá hále swá þú wénst' . . . 'Ic ongyte nú þæt ic ne æom swylc swilce ic wénde,
- Solil. H. 48, 5-10.
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Hwæt wénst þú be Gode, Solil. H. 24, 18. (20) with complement :-- Hé wæs hæfd and wéned fram mannum mycelre árfæstnysse
magnae aestimationis habebatur,
- Gr. D. 326, 24.
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Mé sceamað nú þæt ic wénde þæs ðe hyt næs I am ashamed that I supposed what was not, Solil. H. 48, II. (3d) with gen. and complement, (i) adj. in agreement with gen. :-- Him wǽre iéðre ðæ t hé hira ǽr gearra wénde ðonne hé hira ungearra wénde, Past. 433, 30. (ii) phrase :-- Hé ǽfre him gehende endedæges wéne uiíe sue diem nouissimum prope esse existimet, Ll. Th. i. 374, 17 : Wlfst. 75, 9. (3b)
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:-- Bútan þæs ic sódlícost wéne, þat hyt mín sceádwísnes wére,- Solil. H. 3, 10.
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Ic wundrige hwí ðú éfre þæs wénan mahte be mannum sáwlum þæt hý nǽran ǽcan,
- 62, 23. (4 a) :-- Ðý
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Tó þám ꝥ sceolde beón wéned ꝥ hé wǽre se cyning
ut rex esse putaretur.
- Gr. D. 131, 15.
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Hé ús benimeð þára nigon dǽla þonne wé lǽst wénað, Ll. Th. i. 196, 7. (la) :-- Beó á getreówra ðonne ðe mon tó wéne, Prov. K. 76. (30)
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:-- Hé him wénde from Antigones hámfærelte micelra untreówða,- Ors. 3, II; S. 146, 20.
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Cóm swá mycel unweder him tó ꝥ hí him ne wéndon þæs lífes,
- Hml. S. 31, 1137.
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Ðonne hit ðé frǽcnost þynce, wén ðé ðonne frófre and áre and gesǽlda,
- Prov. K. 75.
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Þéh þe hié him leána tó þǽre díéde wénden,
- Ors. 5, 2; S. 218, 18.
Bosworth, Joseph. “wénan.” 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/60346.
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