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búan

  • verb
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Grammar
búan, bún, búgan (-ian, -ean), búian, búwian, bógian, q.v. in Dict.; býa in N. Gospels; p. búde, búgede, bógode, býede; pp. bún, búd, býed.
Wright's OE grammar
§131; §538;
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intrans.
To dwell
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  • Huér búes (býes, R.) ðú

    ubi habitas?

    ,
      Jn. L. 1. 38.

  • Þá búað oð Méda burh

    habitantes usque ad Medorum civitatem,

      Nar. 33, 16.

  • Þá þe in Norþhymbrum búgeað,

      Chr. 894; P. 86, 7: 924; P. 104, 20.

  • Gé bógiað (búgiað,

    v.l.

    ) on þám fíftan dǽle healfum,
      Bt. 18, 1; S. 42, 15.

  • Flégendo býes (

    habitant

    ) in tyggum his,
      Mt. L. 13, 32.

  • Hé búde on Eást-Englum,

      Chr. 890; P. 82, 10.

  • Manna þe mé ymbútan búdon

    circumhabitantium,

      Ps. Th. 30, 15.

  • Ðá ðe býedon in Hierusalem,

      Lk. L.R. 13, 4.

  • Býa

    habitare,

      Mk. L.R. 4, 32.

  • Allo býendo (habitantes) in ðǽm, Rtl. 100, 17. I a. of land, to lie :-- ꝥ land búeð oð Méda ríce

    subjacet regionibus Medorum,

      Nar. 34, 11.

  • Heora landgemǽre búað neáh þám gársecge,

      38, 20.
trans.
To inhabit, occupy (and cultivate land), possess
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  • Líf éce hé býeð (

    possidebit

    ),
      Mt. L. 19, 29.

  • Gié býeð (

    possidebitis

    ) sáuelo iúero,
      Lk. L. 21, 19.

  • Búgede (bógede, An. Ox. 845)

    incoluit (terram ),

      Hpt. Gl. 426, 44.

  • Þá þe ðá lond búdon,

      Nar. 17, 10.

  • Þá burgware þe þá burg ǽr búdon,

      Chr. 919; P. 100, 12.

  • Þæt mennisc þone eard bógodan,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 6, 12.

  • Býes (

    fossidete

    ) ríc,
      Mt. L. 25, 34.

  • Búian

    inhabitare,

      An. Ox. 11, 13.

  • Godes templ búgian,

      Hml. S. 3, 353.

  • Mæg ic býa

    possidebo,

      Lk. L. 10, 25.

  • Tó býenna

    possidenda,

    p.
      9, 16.

  • Forgeaf God him and his ofspringe þone eard tó búgienne,

      Hml. Th. ii. 190, 14.

  • Land tó búgianne

    land to inhabit,

      Bt. 17; F. 60, 4: 18, 1; F. 62, 16.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “búan.” 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/41077.

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