,
_borough
of blood-kinsmen, entire population united by
ties of blood_; (in wider sense) _race, people, nation_: gen.
ties of blood_; (in wider sense) _race, people, nation_: gen.
Beowulf
māðm-gestrēon, st. n. , _precious jewel_: gen. pl. māðm-gestrēona, 1932.
māðum-gifu, st. f. , _gift of valuable objects, largess of treasure_: dat.
sg. æfter māððum-gife, 1302.
māðum-sigl, st. n. , _costly, sun-shaped ornament, valuable decoration_:
gen. pl. māððum-sigla, 2758.
māðum-sweord, st. n. , _costly sword_ (inlaid with gold and jewels): acc.
sg. , 1024.
māðum-wela, w. m. , _wealth of jewels, valuables_:: dat. sg.
æfter-māððum-welan (_after the sight of the wealth of jewels_), 2751.
māgas. See mǣg.
māge, w. f. , _female relative_: gen. sg. Grendles māgan (_mother_), 1392.
mān, st. n. , _crime, misdeed_: instr. sg. māne, 110, 979; adv. ,
_criminally_, 1056.
mān-for-dǣdla, w. m. , _evil-doer, criminal_: nom. pl. mān-for-dǣdlan, 563.
mān-scaða, w. m. , _mischievous, hurtful foe, hostis nefastus_: nom. sg.
713, 738, 1340; mān-sceaða, 2515.
māra (comp. of micel), adj. , _greater, stronger, mightier_: nom. sg. m.
māra, 1354, 2556; neut. māre, 1561; acc. sg. m. māran, 2017; mund-gripe
māran (_a mightier hand-grip_), 754; with following gen. pl. māran . . .
eorla (_a more powerful earl_), 247; fem. māran, 533, 1012; neut. māre,
518; with gen. pl. morð-beala māre _(more, greater, deeds of murder_), 136;
gen. sg. f. māran, 1824.
mǣst (superl. of micel, māra), _greatest, strongest_: nom. sg. neut. (with
partitive gen. ), mǣst, 78, 193; fem. mǣst, 2329; acc. sg. fem. fǣhðe mǣste,
459; mǣste . . . worolde wynne (_the highest earthly pleasure_), 1080; neut.
n. (with partitive gen. ) mǣst mǣrða, 2646; hond-wundra mǣst, 2769;
bǣl-fȳra mǣst, 3144; instr. sg. m. mǣste cræfte, 2182.
mæcg. See mecg.
mægð, st. f. , _wife, maid, woman_: nom. sg. , 3017; gen. pl. mægða hōse
(_accompanied by her maids of honor_), 925; mægða, 944, 1284.
mægen, st. n. : 1) _might, bodily strength, heroic power_: acc. sg. mægen,
518, 1707; instr. sg. mægene, 780(? ), 2668; gen. sg. mægenes, 418, 1271,
1535, 1717, etc. ; mægnes, 671, 1762; mægenes strang, strengest (_great in
strength_), 1845, 196; mægenes rōf (id. ), 2085. --2) _prime, flower_ (of a
nation), _forces available in war_: acc. sg. swā hē oft (i. e. etan) dyde
mægen Hrēðmanna (_the best of the Hreðmen_), 445; gen. sg. wið manna hwone
mægenes Deniga (_from(? ) any of the men of the Danes_), 155. --Comp.
ofer-mægen.
mægen-āgend, pres. part. , _having great strength, valiant_: gen. pl.
-āgendra, 2838.
mægen-byrðen, st. f. , _huge burthen_: acc. sg. mægen-byrðenne, 3092; dat.
(instr. ) sg. , 1626.
mægen-cræft, st. m. , _great, hero-like, strength_: acc. sg. , 380.
mægen-ellen, st. n. (the same), acc. sg. , 660.
mægen-fultum, st. m. , _material aid_: gen. pl. næs þæt þonne mǣtost
mægen-fultuma (_that was not the least of strong helps_, i. e. the sword
Hrunting), 1456.
mægen-rǣs, st. m. , _mighty attack, onslaught_: acc. sg. , 1520.
mægen-strengo, st. f. , _main strength, heroic power_: acc. sg. , 2679.
mægen-wudu, st. m. , _might-wood_, i. e. the spear, lance: acc. sg. , 236.
mæst, st. m. , _mast_: nom. sg. , 1899; dat. sg. be mæste (_beside the
mast_), 36; _to the mast_, 1906.
mǣðum. See māðum, hyge-mǣðum.
mǣg, st. m. , _kinsman by blood_: nom. sg. mǣg, 408, 738, 759, 814, 915,
1531, 1945, etc; (_brother_), 468, 2605? acc. sg. mǣg (_son_), 1340;
(_brother_), 2440, 2485, 2983; dat. sg. mǣge, 1979; gen. sg. mǣges, 2629,
2676, 2699, 2880; nom. pl. māgas, 1016; acc. pl. māgas, 2816; dat. pl.
māgum, 1179, 2615, 3066; (_to brothers_), 1168; mǣgum, 2354; gen. pl. māga,
247, 1080, 1854, 2007, 2743. --Comp. : fæderen-, hēafod-, wine-mǣg.
mǣg-burh, st. f.
, _borough of blood-kinsmen, entire population united by
ties of blood_; (in wider sense) _race, people, nation_: gen. sg.
lond-rihtes . . . þǣre mǣg-burge (_of land possessions among the people_,
i. e. of the Gēatas), 2888.
mǣgð, st. f. , _race, people_: acc. sg. mǣgðe, 1012; dat. sg. mǣgðe, 75;
dat. pl. mǣgðum, 5; gen. pl. mǣgða, 25, 1772.
mǣg-wine, st. m. , _blood kinsman, friend_, 2480 (nom. pl. ).
mǣl, st. n. : l) _time, point of time_: nom. sg. 316; þā wæs sǣl and mǣl
(_there was_ [appropriate] _chance and time_), 1009; acc. sg. mǣl, 2634;
instr. pl. ǣrran mǣlum, 908, 2238, 3036; gen. pl. mǣla, 1250; sǣla and
mǣla, 1612; mǣla gehwylce (_each time, without intermission_), 2058. --2)
_sword, weapon_: nom. sg. brōden (brogden) mǣl (_the drawn sword_), 1617,
1668 (cf. Grimm, Andreas and Elene, p. 156). --3) _mole, spot,
mark_. --Comp. : grǣg-, hring-, sceaðen-, wunden-mǣl.
mǣl-cearu, st. f. , _long-continued sorrow, grief_: acc. sg. mǣl-ceare, 189.
mǣl-gesceaft, st. f. , _fate, appointed time_: acc. pl. ie on earde bād
mǣl-gesceafta (_awaited the time allotted for me by fate_), 2738.
mǣnan, w. v. , with acc. in the sense of (1) _to remember, mention,
proclaim_: inf. mǣnan, 1068; pret. part. þǣr wæs Bēowulfes mǣrðo mǣned,
858. --2) _to mention sorrowfully, mourn_: inf. 3173; pret. sg. giohðo mǣnde
(_mourned sorrowfully_), 2268; pret. pl. mǣndon, 1150, 3150.
ge-mǣnan (see mān), w. v. with acc. , _to injure maliciously, break_: subj.
pret. pl. ge-mǣnden, 1102.
ge-mǣne, adj. , _common, in common_: nom. sg. gemǣne, 2474; þǣr unc hwīle
wæs hand gemǣne (i. e. in battle), 2138; sceal ūrum þæt sweord and helm bām
gemǣne (i. e. wesan), 2661; nom. pl. gemǣne, 1861; dat. pl. þæt þām folcum
sceal . . . sib gemǣnum (attraction for gemǣne, i. e. wesan), 1858; gen. pl.
unc sceal (i. e. wesan) fela māðma gemǣnra (_we two shall share many
treasures together_), 1785.
mǣrðu, st. f. : 1) _glory, a heroes fame_: nom. sg. 858; acc. sg. mǣrðo,
660, 688; acc. pl. mǣrða, 2997; instr. pl. mǣrðum (_gloriously_), 2515:
gen. pl. mǣrða, 504, 1531. --2) _deed of glory, heroism_: acc. sg. mǣrðo,
2135; gen. pl. mǣrða, 408, 2646. --Comp. ellen-mǣrðu.
mǣre, adj. , _memorable; celebrated, noble; well known, notorious_: nom. sg.
m. mǣre, 103, 129, 1716, 1762; se mǣra, 763, 2012, 2588; also as vocative
m. se mǣra, 1475; nom. fem. mǣru, 2017; mǣre, 1953; neut. mǣre, 2406; acc.
sg. m. mǣrne, 36, 201, 353, 1599, 2385, 2722, 2789, 3099; neut. mǣre, 1024;
dat. sg. mǣrum, 345, 1302, 1993, 2080, 2573; tō þǣm mǣran, 270; gen. sg.
mǣres, 798; mǣran, 1730; nom. pl. mǣre, 3071; superl. mǣrost, 899,--Comp. :
fore-, heaðo-mǣre.
mǣst. See māra.
mǣte, adj. , _moderate, small_: superl. nom. sg. mǣtost, 1456.
mecg, mæcg, st. m. , _son, youth, man_. in comp. hilde-, ōret-mecg,
wræc-mæcg.
medla. See on-medla.
medu, st. m. , _mead_: acc. sg. medu, 2634; dat. sg. tō medo, 605.
medo-ærn, st. n. , _mead-hall_: acc. sg. medo-ærn (Heorot), 69.
medu-benc, st. f. , _mead-bench, bench in the mead-hall_: nom. sg.
medu-benc, 777; dat. sg. medu-bence, 1053; medo-bence, 1068, 2186;
meodu-bence, 1903.
medu-drēam, st. m. , _mead-joy, joyous carousing during mead-drinking_: acc.
sg. 2017.
medo-ful, st. n. , _mead-cup_: acc. sg. 625, 1016.
medo-heal, st. f. , _mead-hall_: nom. sg. , 484; dat. sg. meodu-healle, 639.
medu-scenc, st. m. , _mead-can, vessel_: instr. pl. meodu-scencum, 1981.
medu-seld, st. n. , _mead-seat, mead-house_: acc. sg. , 3066.
medo-setl, st. n. , _mead-seat upon which one sits mead-drinking_: gen. pl.
meodo-setla, 5.
medo-stīg, st.