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stunian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
stunian, p. ode.
to crash, make a loud sound
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  • Sum biþ wíges heard, beadocræftig man ðǽr bord stunaþ

    where the shield resounds,

      Exon. Th. 295, 29; Crä. 40.
  • Stunaþ eal geador winsum sanc

    a pleasant song sounds all together (from the union of many voices ),

      Met. 13, 49.
to strike with a loud sound, crash, dash
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  • Stíme (stune?) hǽtte ðeós wyrt. . . stond heó wið áttre stunaþ heó wærce stíðe heó hátte wiðstunaþ heó áttre

    it resists poison, dashes on pain, stiff is it called, dashes against poison,

      Lchdm. iii. 32, 22.
  • Ðá wearð stearc storma gelác; stunede sió brúne ýð wið óðre

    one dark wave dashed against the other,

      Met. 26, 29.
Etymology
[Later the word means to confound, astonish, stupefy If he hem stowned vpon fyrst, stiller were þanne alle þe heredmen,
    Gaw. 301.
Stonyn lt;i>stupefacio, percello,
    Prompt. Parv. 476.
Stonyd attonitus,
    Cath. Ang 365.
Stoned ne basshed of no thyng be ye,
    Parten. 2940.
Halliwell gives stound as a Northern word = to beat a drum. Cf. Icel. stynja to groan; stynr a groan.]
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v. stinan, ge-stun.
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v.  stinan.
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