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Anglo-Saxon

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ge-cirran

(v.)
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Nama wæs gecyrred on þæt betere, El. 1061. Hé bið gecirred (-cierred, v.l. ) tó áre. Past. 269, 2. Hí synd gecyrrede tó heora gecynde, Hml. Th. i. 68, 29. <b>VI c.

Linked entries: ge-cerran ge-cyrran

hád

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(l a) (one's own) person :-- Swylce ágenum háde ł naman ceu propria persona. An. Ox. 2329. an individual Ꝥ ǽnum untrumum háde wæs forgyfen quod uni personae infirmanti conceditur, Bd. i. 27 ; Sch. 83, 10.

heáh

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Voc. ii. 75, 68 ; 4, 66. chief, principal Drihten þá cynelican burh forhogodlíce naman nemde . . . seó ceaster þonne wæs héh and aldorlic, Bl. H. 77, 25. Is þeós tíd ealra tída héhst and hálgost, 83, 19.

Linked entry: dynt

A

(prefix)
Grammar
A, A. It is not necessary to speak of the form of what are often called Anglo-Saxon letters, as all Teutonic, Celtic, and Latin manuscripts of the same age are written in letters of the same form. There is one exception: the Anglo-Saxons had, with great propriety, two different letters for the two distinct sounds of our th: the hard þ in thin and sooth, and the soft ð in thine and soo
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In manuscripts and in books, it sometimes denotes the letter a; and, at other times, the oak, from its Anglo-Saxon name, ác the oak. v. ÁC, and RÚN. B.

þurh

(prep.)
Grammar
þurh, þurg, þuruh, þorh, þorch, þerh, þerih, þærh; prep.

Through ⬩ through ⬩ for ⬩ during ⬩ through ⬩ by ⬩ through ⬩ by ⬩ by means of ⬩ by use of ⬩ through ⬩ in consequence of ⬩ as the result of ⬩ by reason of ⬩ on account of ⬩ through ⬩ from ⬩ through ⬩ in virtue of ⬩ by right of ⬩ in ⬩ by ⬩ in the character of ⬩ by way of ⬩ in ⬩ with ⬩ with a view to ⬩ through ⬩ by ⬩ in

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Lind. 1, 70. marking cause Hé næs ácweald ðurh ðam heálícan fylle, Homl. Th. ii. 300, 19.

Linked entries: þerh þorch þorh þuruh

né-

(prefix)
Grammar
né-, neá-, neád.

Linked entry: driht-né

ní-

(prefix)

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nó

(n.; v.; adj.; adv.; prefix)

Similar entry: ná

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