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ge-nyhtsumian

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to abound, have abundance
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  • Ælc þǽra ðe hæfð, him bið máre geseald, and hé genihtsumað (

    abundabit

    ),
      Hml. Th. ii. 556, 12.

  • Genyhtsumaþ (hé hæfð genóh,

      W. S.), Mt. R. 25, 29: 13, 12.

  • Þǽm hæbbendum mon sceal ágyfan and hí genyhtsumiað,

      Ll. Th. i. 196, 23.
  • I a. to abound in, have abundance of.
the subject a person
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  • Þá men goldes genihtsumiað

    auro habundant,

      Nar. 31, 5.

  • Þá canonicas þe on þǽm gyltum genihtsumedon,

      Lch. iii. 440, 12.
the subject a thing
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  • Þíne wínwringan genihsumiað

    torcularia tua redundabunt (vino ),

      Kent. Gl. 36.

  • Ǽghwæþer ge seó sǽ ge heora eá fiscum genihtsumade (

    piscibus abundabant

    ),
      Bd. 4, 13; Sch. 420, 8.
to be abundant
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  • Þonne ungeríme bysna mænifealdlíce genihtsumiaþ

    cum innumera exempla affatim exuberent,

      An. Ox. 1690.

  • Genihtsumiendum geánwurfe

    exuberanle reditu,

    558.
to be sufficient, suffice
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  • Ꝥ genihtsumaþ ꝥ þú dydest,

      Nar. 44, 6.

  • Ic hæbbe áne burh þe unc bám genihtsumað,

      Hml. S. 24, 101.

  • Tuu hund penninga ne genyhtsumiað (

    sufficiunt

    ) him,
      Jn. L. R. 6, 7.

  • Him mæg heora ágen lár genihtsumian, Hml. Th. ii. 594, 18. III a. used impersonally :-- Þí lǽs ðe hit ne genihtsumige ús and eów

    ne forte non sufficiat nobis et vobis,

      Hml. Th. ii. 570, 13.
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  • Wé gelýfað þæt ǽnlípugum munecum genihtsumige þæt hé hæbbe cugelan and syric,

      R. Ben. 89, 10.
to have enough of,
be satisfied with
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  • Næs ic ná genihtsumigende on þám geongum, ac ic eác swylce manega ælðeódige besmát,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 395.
  • [O. H. Ger. ge-nuhtsamón abundare, sufficere, locupletare.?
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v. ofer-genyhtsumian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-nyhtsumian.” 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/49093.

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