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on-efn

  • preposition
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Grammar
on-efn, -emn, -em
Wright's OE grammar
§557;
by, near
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  • Hí gemétton fýr, and hláf onem

    they found a fire, and bread close by,

      Homl. Th. ii. 262, 5.
  • Onefen ðone hagan . . . norþ onefen ðæt gelád, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 150, 10-13.Onemn ðæm

    at the same time,

      Ors. 3, 9; Swt. 128, 33.
  • See efn, emn for other examples.
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v.  efen.
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  • on-efn, prep.