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ginian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Wright's OE grammar
§536;
Take here geonian in Dict., and add
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  • Geongendi

    oscitantes,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 115, 75.

  • Þá giniendan

    hiulcas,

      42, 49.
of living creatures.
to open the mouth; of the mouth,
to be open
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  • Geonath, ginath

    battat, batat,

      Txts. 43, 269.

  • Geót on bollan and geona ymb,

      Lch. ii. 50, 12.

  • Se wóda man stód gynigende and þýwde mid múþe ꝥ hé Martinum ábite,

      Hml. S. 31, 538.

  • Geoniendum bile

    hiulco rostro, i. aperto ore,

      An. Ox. 2409.

  • Draca mid giniendum (geniendum,

    v. l.

    ) múðe,
      Gr. D. 156, 11.

  • Hí cleopodon giniendum (geonigendum,

    v. l.

    ) múþum,
      241, 8.

  • Þá geoniendan þrotbollan

    hiulcos (i. apertos) gurguliones,

      An. Ox. 3574.
to open the mouth and utter a sound
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  • Gionat

    garrit,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 109, 49.

  • Geonaþ

    garret,

      40, 55.

  • Ginað

    barrat

    (cf. barrit elefans cum uocem emittit,
      Corp. Gl. H. 23, 34), 10, 69.
of material,
to gape, yawn, be wide open
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  • Beneoðan swíðe deóp niwolnys ginode (geonode,

    v. l.) profundum subter praecipitium patet,

      Gr. D. 52, 18.

  • Þǽr geonode (gynude, v. l.) inþǽre hracan swylce þǽr hwylc seáð wǽre

    quasi quoddam barathrum patebat in gutture,

      241, 12.

  • Hú Marcus Curtius besceát on þá genigendan (gyniendan,

    v. l.

    ) eorþan,
      Ors. 3, 3, tit.; S. 2, 32.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ginian.” 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/50804.

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