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ge-earnian

  • verb [ weak ]
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to deserve, merit.
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  • Hé him sylfum réþne dóm geearnaþ and begyteþ,

      Bl. H. 95, 34.

  • Gefeán . . . þe þú ǽr on worlde mid geleáfan tó mé . . . geeamodest,

      63, 29.

  • Nis nán tweó ꝥ hé forgifnesse syllan nelle þám þe hié geearnian willaþ,

      65, 9.
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  • Ic þé lǽre þæt þú hospcwide ne fremme . . . þonne þú geearnest ꝥ þé bið éce líf seald,

      El. 526.

  • Þíne heortan tó rǽde gecyr and geearna ꝥ þíne béna sýn Gode andfenge,

      Bl. H. 113, 27.

  • Geearnian wé ꝥ úre se ýtmesta dæg sý engla gefeá,

      101, 34.
  • Þ gé mid eówrum ǽhtum geearnian ꝥ gé þone écan gefeán begytan mótan. 53, 29.

  • Ǽghwylc man sceal on worlde geearnian ꝥ him ꝥ gód móre tó écum médum gegangan,

      101, 17.

  • Gehearnian,

      Angl. xii. 514, 28.
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  • Swá hé hér geearnað,

      Kr. 109.
  • Swá hí geearnedan. Ps. Th. 78, 13.

  • For þá óðre swá hý geearnian,

      Ll. Th. i. 222, 21.

  • Swá wíte swá wuldor swé wé nú geearnian willaþ,

      Bl. H. 23, 7.
  • I a. to deserve of (tó) a person,
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  • Tó ðǽm ðe þone écean éðel mid móde and mid mægene tó Gode geearniað. Bl. H. 209, 25.
with gen. : — Gif ic tó þisum þe mé swencað þæs geearnod hæbbe,
    Ps. Th. 7, 3.
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  • Him swá leánian swá hé hire tó geearnud hæfde,

      Cht. Th. 202, 22.

  • Mid wyrsan leáne þonne hé tó him geearnod hæfde. Ors. 5,

      4; S. 224, 33.
to earn, gain by labour, acquire
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  • Þonne geearnige wé ús heofena ríce,

      Angl. xii. 514, 33.
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  • Þ man mid mándǽdum him sylfum geearnige edwît . . . mid gódum dǽdum geearnige him þá écean ræste,

      101, 24-26.
  • Folgere gebyreð ꝥ hé on twelf mónðum .
æceras geearnige (habeat) . . . gyf hé máre geearnian mæig (deservit) him bið sylfum fremu. Ll. Th. i. 438, 4-7. Þ wé þurh ꝥ gegearnian úra synna forlǽt-nesse. Bl. H. 35, 36. Ðá wolde hé geearnian him hereword (adquirere sibi laudem), Chr. 1009 ; P. 138, note 9. Fram Gode ná mæg gegearnian mereri) ꝥ hé bitt, Scint. 45, 2. Geearnian, Bl. H. 25, 22 : 17, 21. On þisse sceortan tíde geearnian éce ræste, 83, 2 : in, 3. Hé gǽþ . . . Drihtne tó geearnienne medome folc, 165, 15. Þ wǽron geearnode ut (praemia) promerentur, An. Ox. 5421. v. ge-arnian
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-earnian.” 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/47781.

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