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Wright's OE grammar
§51; §116; §268; §289; §426; §443; §444; §620;
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of age.
applied to persons
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  • Geong

    puber,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 92, 72.

  • Iung

    adultus,

      3, 71.

  • Hé wæs wintrum geong and on his þeáwum eald,

      Gr. D. 219, 3.

  • Gewiton ealdgesíðas swylce geong manig,

      B. 854.

  • Ongit, guma genga,

      El. 464.

  • Cwæð Salomon tó iongum monnum: 'Ðú gionga (

    adolescens),' Past. 385, 10. (1 a) translating words that express the characteristics of youth :-- Ꝥ iunge tenerrima (virgo ),

      An. Ox. 4119.

  • Swá swá beardleás, swylce geongum hægstealde

    ut effebo hircitallo, i. sine barba,

    3476.

  • Iunge (beardleás) heápas

    inuestes (i. sine barba) cateruas,

    2876.
applied to personal attributes,
youthful
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  • Iunges cildhádes

    rudis infantine,

      An. Ox. 2275.

  • Fram þǽre sylfan iungan mearunesse

    ah ipsa rudi (cunabulorum) teneritudine,

    1491.

  • Gebyrdtída iungan iugeþe

    (ab ipsa) cunabulorum teneritudine,

    2843.

  • Swá swá se geongeste æþeles iuguþhádes wrénnesse

    quasi tenerrima nobilis infantię lasciuia,

    1093.
applied to things,
fresh, young, new
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  • Iungum wyrtúna ofætum

    recentibus (i. nouis) hortorum holusculis,

      An. Ox. 3750.
in reference to a change of condition,
new, recent
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  • Iungum

    neutericis, i. nouellis (catholicae fidei sectatoribus ),

      An. Ox. 1673.
marking order in time, in superlative, last (cf.
Ger. der jüngste tag)
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  • Þæt wæs þám gomelan gingæste word ǽr hé bǽl cure . . . him of hreðre gewát sáwol,

      B. 2817.
marking rank, degree. v. gingra
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  • Hé gesette under him gingran cásere,

      Ors. 6, 30; S. 278, 21.

  • Úre Áliésend hine gemedomode tó biónne betwiux ðǽm lǽsðum and ðǽm gingestum monnum,

      Past. 301, 14. v. sám-geong, and next word.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “geong.” 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/49196.

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