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ge-mynd

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
ge-mynd, es; n: e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§35; §112; §391;
Mind, memory, memorial, memento, remembrance, commemoration
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  • He fæste on gemynde hæfde

    he had fast in mind;

    memoriter retinuit,
      Bd. 4, 24; S. 597, 26.

  • Gecerre hine to his gemynde

    let him have recourse to his memory,

      Bt. 35, 1; Fox 156, 10.

  • Ðæs mannes sáwl hæfþ on hire þreó þing, ðæt is gemynd and andgit and willa. Ðurh ðæt gemynd se man geþencþ ða þing ðe he gehýrde oððe geseah oððe geleornode

    man's soul has in it three things, that is memory and understanding and will. By the memory a man recollects the things that he has heard or seen or learned,

      Homl. Th. i. 288, 18-21: 28.

  • Tubal Cain ðurh módes gemynd sulh-geweorces fruma wæs

    Tubal Cain was the originator of plough-work by thought of mind,

      Cd. 52; Th. 66, 16; Gen. 1085: Exon. 17 b; Th. 41, 33; Cri. 665: Bt. Met. Fox 22, 115; Met. 22, 58.

  • Ðǽr se wísdóm á wunaþ on gemyndum

    there wisdom ever dwells in mind,

      7, 79; Met. 7, 39.

  • Me hæfþ ðeós gnornung ðære gemynde benumen

    this grief has deprived me of the recollection,

      Bt. 5, 3; Fox 12, 20.

  • We witon swíþe lytel ðæs ðe ǽr us wæs búton be gemynde and be geacsunge

    we know very little of that which was before us except by memory and by inquiry,

      42; Fox 256, 25.

  • Heora gemynd is forgiten

    the memory of them is forgotten,

      Swt. A. S. Rdr. 57, 13.

  • Ic wilnode ðǽm monnum to lǽfanne ðe æfter me wǽren mín gemynd on gódum weorcum

    I desired to leave to the men that should be after me my memory in good works,

      Bt. 17; Fox 60, 16; Blickl. Homl. 197, 5.

  • Ðín gemynd

    memoriale tuum,

      Ps. Th. 101, 10: Blickl. Homl. 171, 32.

  • Ðis wæs gedón on mín gemynd

    this was done in remembrance of me,

      69, 20.

  • Ðæs hálgan biscopes gemynd

    the commemoration of the holy bishop,

      Shrn. 78, 23: 86, 29: 105, 30.

  • Mannum to écre gemynde

    for a perpetual remembrance to men,

      127, 22; 189, 15.

  • Ðis to gemyndum habban

    to have this as a memento,

      113, 34: Beo. Th. 5600; B. 2804.

  • Ne cwæþ he ðæt ná forðon ðe him wǽre ǽnig gemynd ðearfendra manna

    he did not say that because he minded about the needy,

      Blickl. Homl. 69, 10: 61, 25: 83, 16.

  • Swá ic ðín gemynd rihte begange

    sic memor fui tui,

      Ps. Th. 62,-6: 108, 16.

  • Us is mid mycelre gemynde to geþencenne

    we must bear well in mind,

      Blickl. Homl. 29, 2.

  • Gimynd

    commemoratio,

      Rtl. 62, 21.

  • In gemyndum to habbanne

    to be had in mind,

      Nar. 4, 9: 2, 8.
Etymology
[Goth. gamunds; f. remembrance: O. H. Ger. gi-munt; f.]
Linked entries
v.  ge-mend ge-mind ge-myndleás.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-mynd.” 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/15306.

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