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ge-wuna

  • adjective
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Grammar
ge-wuna, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§410; §574;
Dele last reference, and add:
of persons (or things personified),
accustomed, used
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  • Ic mé, swá swá ic gewuna wæs, tó middes heora gemengde,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 372.

  • Hý nán licgende feoh ne métton, swá hý ǽr gewuna (bewuna, v. l., cf. 16, where Thorpe prints gewuna) wǽron, Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 61, 31. I a.

    accustomed

    to, with dat. or dat. infin. :-- Sincalda sǽ . . . æflástum gewuna,
      Exod. 473.

  • Seó gyfu ne bið oncnáwen of þǽre medemnesse, ac gewuna is hí tó getácnigenne of þǽre sáwle dǽdum,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 241.

  • Forgeafa gewuna wæs him énne of ðǽm gebundenum

    dimittere solebat illis unum ex uinctis,

      Mk. L. R. 15, 6.

  • Ne oferfar þú ná Iordanen, swá swá gewuna syut of eówrum mynstrum tó farenne,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 614.
of things,
customary, usual
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  • Gewearð se micla moncwealm on Róme; ná swá hit gewuna (or substantive?) is, of untídlican gewideran ingens Romam pestilentia corripuit; non, ut adsolet, temporum turbata temperies, Ors. 3, 3; S. 102, 5. ¶ the word seems declined in :--

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    geára gewunan oððe gewunede,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 3.
Similar entries
v. un-gewuna, be-wuna.
Linked entries
v.  be-wuna.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-wuna.” 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/50609.

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