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DUGAN

  • verb [ preterite-present ]
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Grammar
DUGAN, part. dugende; ic, he deah, deag; ðú duge, pl. dugon; p. dohte, pl. dohton
Wright's OE grammar
§482; §541;
To avail, to be of use, able, fit, strong, vigorous, good, virtuous, honest, bountiful, kind, liberal; valēre, prōdesse, frūgi ease, bŏnum esse, munĭfĭcum, vel libĕrālem se præbēre
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  • Ðonne his ellea deah

    when his valour avails,

    • Beo. Th. 1151
      • ;
    • B. 573: Andr. Kmbl. 920
      • ;
    • An. 460: Bt. 29,
      • 2;
    • Fox 106,
      • 1.

  • Se ðe his heorte deah

    he whose heart is good,

    • Cd. 219
      • ;
    • Th, 282,
      • 8;
    • Sat. 283
      • .

  • Húru se aldor deah [Th. þeáh, Beo. 744], se ðǽm heaðorincum hider wísade

    the chief is able indeed, who has led the warriors hither,

    • B. 369
      • .

  • Ðeáh ðú heaðorǽsa gehwǽr dohte, grimre gúþe

    though thou hast everywhere been vigorous in martial onslaughts, in grim war,

    • Beo. Th. 1057
      • ;
    • B. 526
      • .

  • Gif he ǽr ne dohte

    if he were not before virtuous,

    • Bt. 27,
      • 2;
    • Fox 98,
      • 14.

  • Dó á ðætte duge

    do ever what is virtuous,

    • Exon. 80 a
      • ;
    • Th. 300,
      • 10;
    • Fä. 4
      • .

  • Ðet him náðor ne dohte ne innhere ne úthere

    so that neither the in-army nor the out-army was of use to them,

    • Chr. 1006
      • ;
    • Th. 257, 15, col. 1
      • .

  • Swá swá hí sceoldon, gif hí dohton

    as they ought, if they were honest,

    • Bt, 18,
      • 3;
    • Fox 64,
      • 37.

  • Ðæt ðú dohtest ðínum bréðer and wædlan and þearfan

    that thou be bountiful to thy brother, to the poor, and to the needy,

    • Deut. 15,
      • 11.

  • Ðú us wel dohtest

    thou wast truly kind to us,

    • Beo. Th. 3647
      • ;
    • B. 1821: 2693
      • ;
    • B. 1344
      • .

  • Hú me cyne-góde cystum dohten

    how the good by race were munificently liberal to me,

    • Exon. 85 b
      • ;
    • Th. 322, 1
      • ;
    • Wíd. 56: 86 a
      • ;
    • Th. 324,
      • 4;
    • Wíd. 89
      • .

  • Ða sceolon eall dugende beón swá swá hit gedafenaþ ðam háde they shall all be virtuous so as is befitting the order, L. Ælf. C. 16; Th. ii. 348,

    • 16
      • .
  • [Dugan is the third of the twelve Anglo-Saxon verbs called præterito-præsentia, and given under ágan, q. v. The inf. dugan and the pret. deah, pl. dugon, retaining preterite inflections, are taken from the p. of a strong verb deogan, p. deah, pl. dugon; pp. dogen, ascertained from deah; pl. dugon, which shews the ablaut or internal change off], and requires by analogy with other verbs of the same class the inf. deogan and the pp. dogen; thus we find the original verb deogan, p. deah, pl. dugon; pp. dogen. The weak p. dohte, pl. dohton [ = duhte, duhton], is formed regularly from the inf. dugan. The same præterito-præsens may be generally observed in the following cognate words :--   inf. pres. pl. p. Piers P. Orm.   degh, dægh,     O. Sax dugan, dóg, dugun,   O. Frs. duga, duch,     M. H. Ger. tugen, touc,   tohte, O. H. Ger. tugan, touc, tugun, 3rd pers. pl. tohta, Goth. dugan, dáug, dugum, daúhta.]
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v.  dugunde.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “DUGAN.” 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/8092.

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