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ge-emnettan

  • verb [ weak ]
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ge-emnettan, -emnittan, -emnyttan; p. te; pp. ed
To make even or level, compare; æquāre, exæquāre
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  • Deáþ geemnet ða rícan and ða heánan

    death levels the rich and the poor,

    • Bt. 19; Fox 68, 34
      • .

  • Gif we úre unþeáwas geemnettaþ be his hǽsum

    if we level our vices by his commands,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 316, 1
      • .

  • Heó hí sylfe to hwelpum geemnette

    she compared herself to the whelps,

    • 114, 10
      • .

  • Geemnittan

    exæquāre,

    • Scint. 9
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  • Ðæt heó ðone dæg and ða niht geemnytte

    that it might make even the day and the night,

    • Bd. de nat. rerum
      • ;
    • Lchdm. iii. 238, 24
      • .

  • Geemnettan

    quadrare, congruere,

    • Hpt. Gl. 506
      • .
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v.  ge-ymnyttan ge-efnettan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-emnettan.” 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/14220.

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