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up-heofon

  • noun [ masculine ]
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up-heofon, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§590;
The heavens, the sky
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  • Eall upheofon bið sweart and gesworcen,

      Wulfst. 137, 8.
  • Beofaþ ealbeorhte gesceaft ... dyneþ upheofon,

      Exon. Th. 448, 25; Dóm. 59.
  • Eálá middaneard ... eálá upheofon,

      Cd. Th. 275, 6; Sat. 167.
  • Ðú geworhtest eorþan frætwe and upheofen; ðæt is heáh geweorc handa ðínra

    terram tu fundasti; et opera manuum tuarum sunt coeli,

      Ps. Th. 101, 22.
  • Eorðan ic bidde and upheofon,

      Lchdm. i. 400, 3: Exon. Th. 60, 12; Cri. 968: Andr. Kmbl. 1596; An. 799.
  • Se gást upheofon gesóhte

    spiritus astra petit,

      Bd. 2, 1; S. 500, 20.
  • [Cf O. Sax. up-himil: O. H. Ger. úf-himil: Icel. upp-himinn.] Cf. up-rodor.
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  • up-heofon, n.