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ymb-gangan

  • verb [ strong ]
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ymb-gangan, p. -géng.
to go round
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  • Hí ymbgangaþ ceaster

    circuibunt civitatem,

      Ps. Spl. T. 58, 16.
to go about, in the neighbourhood of
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  • Ic ymbgonge weófod

    circumdabo altare,

      Ps. Spl. T. 25, 6: Ælfc. Gr. 24; Zup. 139, 13.
  • Hine ymbegangaþ gástas twégen,

      Salm. Kmbl. 973; Sal. 487.
to go about, over, through
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  • Gé ymbgangaþ sǽ and eorðu

    circuitis mare et aridam,

      Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 23, 14.
Etymology
[Other have hem umbiȝonge (circumdederunt), Pall. 119, 437. O. H. Ger. umbi-gangan.]
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