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firgen-streám

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
firgen-streám, fyrgen-streám, firgend-streám, firigend-streám, es; m,
A mountain-stream, the ocean; montānum vel saltuense flūmen, oceănus
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  • Hió ðæt líe ætbær under firgenstreám

    she bore the corpse away under the mountain-stream,

    • Beo. Th. 4263
      • ;
    • B. 2128.

  • Fugel on firgenstreám lócaþ georne

    the bird looks earnestly into the mountain-stream,

    • Exon. 57a
      • ;
    • Th. 204, 20
      • ;
    • Ph. 100.

  • Wæs ic firgenstreámum swíðe besuncen

    I was deeply sunk in mountain-streams,

    • 103b
      • ;
    • Th. 392, 4
      • ;
    • Rä. 11, 2.

  • Ymb ealra land gehwilc fiówan firgenstreámas

    mountain-streams [shall] flow over every land,

    • Menol. Fox 555
      • ;
    • Gn. C. 47.

  • Fleów firgendstreám

    the mountain-stream flowed,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 3144
      • ;
    • An. 1575.

  • Ofer firigendstreám

    over the ocean,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 779
      • ;
    • An. 390.
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v.  firgend-streám firigend-streám fyrgen-streám.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “firgen-streám.” 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/10781.

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