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Wright's OE grammar
§79; §144; §161; §471; §560;
1 a.
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  • Gé secgað ꝥ Petrus hæfde wíf and cíld, and wé eác secgað ꝥ hé swá hæfde,

      Ll. Th. ii. 376, 30.
2 a.
Dele passage from Blick. Homl. 247, 1. and add
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  • Sægde him mon ꝥ þǽr wǽre sum man earmlíce áswolten swá ꝥ hé hine sylfne áwyrde,

      Bl. H. 219, 12.

  • Heora án his exe úp ábrǽd, wolde hine sleán ; ac him forwyrnde sum óþer swá ꝥ hé ꝥ hylfe gelæhte,

      Hml. S. 31, 154: 32, 207.

  • Hafa hine swá swilce ðín ágen lim,

      Hex. 46, 3.
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  • Swá cenlic

    percommoda,

      Txts. 85, 1534.
  • God gescifte ǽnne swá gerádne mon. Hml. S. 23, 415.

  • On ðǽm tweón þe hié swá ungeorne his willan fulleódon

    qui fastidiose ducem in disponendo bello audientes, Ors. 3, 11; S. 146, 24. (4 a) with an adjective, as epithet of an object, all the adjective as the object was (is) :-- Hé hí swá unróte (her all troubled as she was) óleccende tó him geloccode (eam) tristem blanditiis delinivit,

      Past. 415, 18.

  • Hié Rómáne . . . swá cuce on eorðan bedulfan

    viva obruta est in campo.

      Ors. 3, 6; S. 108, 19: Hml. S. 18, 337: 35, 115.

  • Þá hé árás, þá ongan hé þencan swá scyldig

    cum surrexisset, reus cogitare coepit,

      Gr. D. 308, 20.
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  • Þa Walas flugon þá Englan swá fýr (swá man flúcð fýr,

    v. l.

    ).
      Chr. 473 ; P. 14, 5.
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  • Hé cwæð swá seó ilce wíse þá manigum men cúþ wæs be his sage aiebat sicut tunc res eadem multis innotuit, Gr. D. 318, 26. ꝥ hé sealde þám óðrum swá hé nyste áttor drincan

    ut ei nescienti in potu venenum daret,

      158, 29 : 327, 8 : Hml. S. 30, 88.

  • Hé læg fíf dagas beforan ðæs mynstres geate swá hé ne æt ne ne dranc, ac hé bæd ingonges,

      Shrn. 109, 5.
3.
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  • Hé læg þǽr swá dǽd lange on þǽre flóra,

      Hml. S. 7, 173.
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  • Hé þám twám dælum bebeád, swá hié feohtan angunnen, ꝥ hié wið his flugen. Ors. 3, 7 ; S. 116, 27: 5,

      13; S, 246, 14.

  • Swá þonne hé tó ðǽm stáne cóm, þonne hét hé hiene mid fýre onhǽtan,

      4, 8; S. 186, 18.

  • Swá þis gedón byþ, gá ic æfter þe

    opere expleto te subseyuor,

      Gr. D. 36, 31 : Bt. 31, 4; F. 252, 12.

  • Hý þá þám hrægelþéne betǽcen, swá hý hám cómen

    revertentes restituant,

      R. Ben. 91, 13.

  • Hé on án sceolde tó helle, swá hé forðfaren wæs,

      Wlfst. 16, 14.

  • Hé leofað sóna swá hé besihð on hig

    qui aspexerit eum vivet,

      Num. 21, 8.
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  • Eall þing þysses middangeardes swá swá fremde hí forhogedon,

      Bd. 1, 26; Sch. 57, 2.
1.
add: — Þá wæs hé swá feor norþ swá þá hwælhuntan firrest faraþ, Ors. 1, 1 ; S. 17, 11.
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  • Wið þan ðe mín wiif þǽr benuge innganges swá mid mínum líce swǽ yferran dógre swǽ hwæder swǽ hire liófre sié,

      Cht. Th. 470, 33-38.

  • Sé dyde swaþer hé dorste . . . swá (

    vel) hé hit ágnode swá (vel )

    hé hit týmde,
      Ll. Th. i. 160, 8.
2 b. add: — Suá (swǽ, v. l.
) nytt suá unnyt suæðer hié beóð,
    Past. 97, 1.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “swá.” 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/58764.

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