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ge-welgian

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  • Gewelegade

    donat,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 141, 72.

  • Gewelegodum

    a predito,

      2, 3.
to become rich
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  • Ellenróf úp ástondeð, þrymme gewelgað (

    becomes enriched with glory, becomes glorious

    ),
      Pa. 41.
to make rich.
of material wealth,
the object a person,
to bestow wealth on another
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  • Ðet ic geweolegie

    ut ditem (diligentes me ),

      Kent. Gl. 252.

  • God ne hét ús gewelgian þá hæbbendan,

      Wlfst. 287, 24.
to make oneself
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  • Gif hé beó gewelegod tó þám ꝥ (gif hé geþeó ꝥ,

    v. l.

    ) hé áge .v. hýda landes,
      Ll. Th. i. 188, 19: 186, 18.

  • Ne bið geweolegad non ditabitur, Kent. Gl. 789. ꝥ ðú sió geweolugad

    ut diteris,

    861.
the subject the material wealth
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  • Þá welan þisses middangeardes nánne mon geweligian ne magon,

      Bt. 13; F. 38, 37.
the object a thing
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  • Eorðan geweolgian

    terram locupletare,

      Ps. Srt. 64, 10.
of non-material wealth
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  • Þú us gewelegodest mid þínum tócyme,

      Bl. H. 89, 32.

  • Ungeendedum edleáni[ende] forebeácnum wæs gewelgod

    infinitis remuneratore prodigiis donatur,

      An. Ox. 2551.

  • Gewelgode

    prosperabantur,

    3630.

  • Þá sáwla þe beóð gewelgode mid góódum geearnuncgum,

      Ps. Th. 44, 13.

  • Æt þám sácerdum ..., þá wǽron geweolgade (-welgode, v. l.) mid wundorlicre sóðfæstnesse and bilwitnesse

    a sacerdotibus mira veritate et simplicitate praeditis,

      Gr. D. 250, 6.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-welgian.” 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/50417.

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