wyrðe
þinceað
eorla geæhtlan, _seem worthy of the
high esteem of the noble-born_, 369.
high esteem of the noble-born_, 369.
Beowulf
of āgan), _possessor, owner, lord_: gen.
sg.
āgendes, _of
God_, 3076. --Compounds: blǣd-, bold-, folc-, mægen-āgend.
āgend-frēa, w. m. , _owner, lord_: gen. sg. āgend-frēan, 1884.
āhsian, ge-āhsian, w. v. : 1) _to examine, to find out by inquiring_: pret.
part. ge-āhsod, 433. --2) _to experience, to endure_: pret. āhsode, 1207;
pl. āhsodon, 423.
āht, st. n. (contracted from ā-wiht, which see), _something, anything_: āht
cwices, 2315.
ān, num. The meaning of this word betrays its apparent demonstrative
character: 1) _this, that_, 2411, of the hall in the earth mentioned
before; similarly, 100 (of Grendel; already mentioned), cf. also 2775. --2)
_one_, a particular one among many, a single one, in numerical sense: ymb
āne niht (_the next night_), 135; þurh ānes cræft, 700; þāra ānum, 1038; ān
æfter ānum, _one for the other_ (Hrēðel for Herebeald), 2462: similarly, ān
æfter eallum, 2269; ānes hwæt, _some single thing, a part_, 3011; se ān
lēoda duguðe, _the one of the heroes of the people_, 2238; ānes willan,
_for the sake of a single one_, 3078, etc. --Hence, again, 3) _alone,
distinguished_, 1459, 1886. --4) _a_, in the sense of an indefinite article:
ān . . . fēond, 100; gen. sg. ānre bēne (or to No. 2[? ]), 428; ān . . . draca,
2211--5) gen. pl. ānra, in connection with a pronoun, _single_; ānra
gehwylces, _every single one_, 733; ānra gehwylcum, 785. Similarly, the
dat. pl. in this sense: nemne fēaum ānum, _except a few single ones_,
1082. --6) solus, _alone_: in the strong form, 1378, 2965; in the weak form,
145, 425, 431, 889, etc. ; with the gen. , āna Gēata duguðe, _alone of the
warriors of the Gēatas_, 2658. --7) solitarius, _alone, lonely_, see
ǣn. --Comp. nān.
ān-feald, adj. , _simple, plain, without reserve_: acc. sg. ānfealdne
geþōht, _simple opinion_, 256.
ān-genga, -gengea, w. m. , _he who goes alone_, of Grendel, 165, 449.
ān-haga, w. m. , _he who stands alone_, solitarius, 2369.
ān-hȳdig, adj. (like the O. N. ein-rād-r, _of one resolve_, i. e. of firm
resolve), _of one opinion_, i. e. firm, brave, decided, 2668.
ānga, adj. (only in the weak form), _single, only_: acc. sg. āngan dōhtor,
375, 2998; āngan eaferan, 1548; dat. sg. āngan brēðer, 1263.
ān-pæð, st. m. , _lonely way, path_: acc. pl. ānpaðas, 1411.
ān-rǣd, adj. (cf. under ān-hȳdig), _of firm resolution, resolved_, 1530,
1576.
ān-tīd, st. f. , _one time_, i. e. the same time, ymb ān-tīd ōðres dōgores,
_about the same time the second day_ (they sailed twenty-four hours),
219. --ān stands as in ān-mod, O. H. G. ein-muoti, _harmonious, of the same
disposition_.
ānunga, adv. , _throughout, entirely, wholly_, 635.
ār, st. m. , _ambassador, messenger_, 336, 2784.
ār, st. f. , 1) _honor, dignity_: ārum healdan, _to hold in honor_, 296;
similarly, 1100, 1183. --2) _favor, grace, support_: acc. sg. āre, 1273,
2607; dat. sg. āre, 2379; gen. pl. hwæt . . . ārna, 1188. --Comp. worold-ār;
also written ǣr.
ār-fæst, adj. , _honorable, upright_, 1169; of Hunferð (with reference to
588). See fæst.
ārian, w. v. , (_to be gracious_), _to spare_: III. sg. prs. w. dat. nǣnegum
ārað; of Grendel, 599.
ār-stæf, st. m. ,(elementum honoris), _grace, favor_: dat. pl. mid ārstafum,
317. --_Help, support_: dat. pl. for ār-stafum, _to the assistance_, 382,
458. See stæf.
āter-tēar, m. , _poisonous drop_: dat. pl. īren āter-tēarum fāh (steel which
is dipped in poison or in poisonous sap of plants), 1460.
Æ
æðele, adj. , _noble_: nom. sg. , of Bēowulf, 198, 1313; of Bēowulf's father,
263, where it can be understood as well in a moral as in a genealogical
sense; the latter prevails decidedly in the gen. sg. æðelan cynnes, 2235.
æðeling, st. m. , _nobleman, man of noble descent_, especially the
appellation of a man of royal birth; so of the kings of the Danes, 3; of
Scyld, 33; of Hrōðgār, 130; of Sigemund, 889; of Bēowulf, 1226, 1245, 1597,
1816, 2189, 2343, 2375, 2425, 2716, 3136; perhaps also of Dæghrefn,
2507;--then, in a broader sense, also denoting other noble-born men:
Æschere, 1295; Hrōðgār's courtiers, 118, 983; Heremōd's courtiers, 907;
Hengest's warriors, 1113; Bēowulf's retinue, 1805, 1921, 3172; noble-born
in general, 2889. --Comp. sib-æðeling.
æðelu, st. n. , only in the pl. , _noble descent, nobility_, in the sense of
noble lineage: acc. pl. æðelu, 392; dat. pl. cyning æðelum gōd, _the king,
of noble birth_, 1871; æðelum dīore, _worthy on account of noble lineage_,
1950; æðelum (hǣleþum, MS. ), 332. --Comp. fæder-æðelu.
æfnan, w. v. w. acc. , _to perform, to carry out, to accomplish_: inf.
ellen-weorc æfnan, _to do a heroic deed_, 1465; pret. unriht æfnde,
_perpetrated wrong_, 1255.
ge-æfnan, 1) _to carry out, to do, to accomplish_: pret. pl. þæt geæfndon
swā, _so carried that out_, 538; pret. part. āð wæs geæfned, _the oath was
sworn_, 1108. --2) _get ready, prepare_: pret. part. geæfned, 3107. See
efnan.
æfter (comparative of af, Ags. of, which see; hence it expresses the idea
of _forth, away, from, back_), a) adv. , _thereupon, afterwards_, 12, 341,
1390, 2155. --ic him æfter sceal, _I shall go after them_, 2817; in word
æfter cwæð, 315, the sense seems to be, _spoke back, having turned_; b)
prep. w. dat. , 1) (temporal) _after_, 119, 128, 187, 825, 1939, etc. ; æfter
beorne, _after the_ (death of) _the hero_, 2261, so 2262; æfter
māððum-welan, _after_ (obtaining) _the treasure_, 2751. --2) (causal) as
proceeding from something, denoting result and purpose, hence, _in
consequence of, conformably to_: æfter rihte, _in accordance with right_,
1050, 2111; æfter faroðe, _with the current_, 580; so 1321, 1721, 1944,
2180, etc. , æfter heaðo-swāte, _in consequence of the blood of battle_,
1607; æfter wælnīðe, _in consequence of mortal enmity_, 85; _in accordance
with, on account of, after, about_: æfter æðelum (hǣleþum, MS. )frægn,
_asked about the descent_, 332; ne frīn þū æfter sǣlum, _ask not after my
welfare_, 1323; æfter sincgyfan grēoteð, _weeps for the giver of treasure_,
1343; him æfter dēorum men dyrne langað, _longs in secret for the dear
man_, 1880; ān æfter ānum, _one for the other_, 2462, etc. --3) (local),
_along_: æfter gumcynnum, _throughout the races of men, among men_, 945;
sōhte bed æfter būrum, _sought a bed among the rooms of the castle_ (the
castle was fortified, the hall was not), 140; æfter recede wlāt, _looked
along the hall_, 1573; stone æfter stāne, _smelt along the rocks_, 2289;
æfter lyfte, _along the air through the air_, 2833; similarly, 996, 1068,
1317, etc.
æf-þunca, w. m. , _anger, chagrin, vexatious affair_: nom. , 502.
ge-æhtan, w. v. , _to prize, to speak in praise of_: pret. part. geæhted,
1866.
ge-æhtla, w. m. , or ge-æhtle, w. f. , _a speaking of with praise, high
esteem_: gen. sg. hȳ . . .
wyrðe þinceað eorla geæhtlan, _seem worthy of the
high esteem of the noble-born_, 369.
æglǣcea. See āglǣcea.
æl-fylce (from æl-, Goth. ali-s, ἄλλος, and fylce, O. N. fylki, collective
form from folc), st. n. , _other folk, hostile army_: dat. pl. wið ælfylcum,
2372.
æl-mihtig (for eal-m. ), adj. , _almighty_: nom. sg. m. , of the weak form, se
æl-mihtiga, 92.
æl-wiht, st. m. , _being of another species, monster_: gen. pl. æl-wihta
eard, of the dwelling-place of Grendel's kindred, 1501.
æppel-fealu, adj. , _dappled sorrel_, or _apple-yellow_: nom. pl.
æppel-fealuwe mēaras, _apple-yellow steeds_, 2166.
ærn, st. n. , _house_, in the compounds heal-, hord-, medo-, þrȳð-,
win-ærn.
æsc, st. m. , _ash_ (does not occur in Bēowulf in this sense), _lance,
spear_, because the shaft consists of ash wood: dat. pl. (quā instr. ) æscum
and ecgum, _with spears and swords_, 1773.
æsc-holt, st. n. , _ash wood, ashen shaft_: nom. pl. æsc-holt ufan grǣg,
_the ashen shafts gray above_ (spears with iron points), 330.
æsc-wiga, w. m. , _spear-fighter, warrior armed with the spear_: nom. sg. ,
2043.
æt, prep. w. dat. , with the fundamental meaning of nearness to something,
hence 1) local, a) _with, near, at, on, in_ (rest): æt hȳðe, in _harbor_,
32; æt symle, _at the meal_, 81, æt āde, _on the funeral-pile_, 1111, 1115;
æt þē ānum, _with thee alone_, 1378; æt wīge, _in the fight_, 1338; æt
hilde, 1660, 2682; æt ǣte, _in eating_, 3027, etc. b) _to, towards, at, on_
(motion to): dēaðes wylm hrān æt heortan, _seized upon the heart_, 2271;
gehēton æt hærgtrafum, _vowed at_ (or _to_) _the temples of the gods_, 175.
c) with verbs of taking away, _away from_ (as starting from near an
object): geþeah þæt ful æt Wealhþēon, _took the cup from W_. , 630; fela ic
gebād grynna æt Grendle, _from Grendel_, 931; æt mīnum fæder genam, _took
me from my father to himself_, 2430. --2) temporal, _at, in, at the time
of_: æt frumsceafte, _in the beginning_, 45; æt ende, _at an end_, 224;
fand sīnne dryhten ealdres æt ende, _at the end of life, dying_, 2791;
similarly, 2823; æt feohgyftum, _in giving gifts_, 1090; æt sīðestan,
_finally_, 3014.
æt-grǣpe, adj. , _laying hold of_, prehendens, 1270.
æt-rihte, adv. , _almost_, 1658.
Ǣ
ǣdre, ēdre, st. f. , _aqueduct, canal_ (not in Bēow. ), _vein_ (not in
Bēow. ), _stream, violent pouring forth_: dat. pl. swāt ǣdrum sprong, _the
blood sprang in streams_, 2967; blōd ēdrum dranc, _drank the blood in
streams_(? ), 743.
ǣdre, adv. , _hastily, directly, immediately_, 77, 354, 3107.
ǣðm, st. m. , _breath, gasp, snort_: instr. sg. hreðer ǣðme wēoll, _the
breast_ (of the drake) _heaved with snorting_, 2594.
ǣfen, st. m. , _evening_, 1236.
ǣfen-gram, adj. , _hostile at evening, night-enemy_: nom. sg. m. ǣfen-grom,
of Grendel, 2075.
ǣfen-lēoht, st. n. , _evening-light_: nom. sg. , 413.
ǣfen-ræst, st. f. , _evening-rest_: acc. sg. -ræste, 647, 1253.
ǣfen-sprǣc, st. f. , _evening-talk_: acc. sg. gemunde . . . ǣfen-sprǣce,
_thought about what he had spoken in the evening_, 760.
ǣfre, adv. , _ever, at any time_, 70, 280, 504, 693, etc. : in negative
sentences, ǣfre ne, _never_, 2601. --Comp. nǣfre.
ǣg-hwā (O. H. G. ēo-ga-hwër), pron. , _every, each_: dat. sg. ǣghwǣm, 1385.
The gen. sg. in adverbial sense, _in all, throughout, thoroughly_: ǣghwæs
untǣle, _thoroughly blameless_, 1866; ǣghwæs unrīm, _entirely innumerable
quantity_, i. e. an enormous multitude, 2625, 3136.
ǣg-hwæðer (O. H. G. ēo-ga-hwëdar): 1) _each_ (of two): nom. sg. hæfde
ǣghwæðer ende gefēred, _each of the two_ (Bēowulf and the drake) _had
reached the end_, 2845; dat. sg. ǣghwæðrum wæs brōga fram ōðrum, _to each
of the two_ (Bēowulf and the drake) _was fear of the other_, 2565; gen. sg.
ǣghwæðres . . . worda and worca, 287. --2) _each_ (of several): dat. sg. heora
ǣghwæðrum, 1637.
ǣg-hwǣr, adv. , _everywhere_, 1060.
ǣg-hwilc (O. H. G. ēo-gi-hwëlih), pron. , unusquisque, _every_ (one): 1) used
as an adj. : acc. sg. m. dǣl ǣghwylcne, 622. --2) as substantive, a) with the
partitive genitive: nom. sg. ǣg-hwylc, 9, 2888; dat. sg. ǣghwylcum, 1051.
b) without gen. : nom. sg. ǣghwylc, 985, 988; (wæs) ǣghwylc ōðrum trȳwe,
_each one_ (of two) _true to the other_, 1166.
ǣg-weard, st. f. , _watch on the sea shore_: acc. sg. ǣg-wearde, 241.
ǣht (abstract form from āgan, denoting the state of possessing), st. f. : 1)
_possession, power_: acc. sg. on flōdes ǣht, 42; on wæteres ǣht, _into the
power of the water_, 516; on ǣht gehwearf Denigea frēan, _passed over into
the possession of a Danish master_, 1680. --2) _property, possessions,
goods_: acc. pl. ǣhte, 2249. --Comp. māðm-, gold-ǣht.
ǣht (O. H. G. āhta), st. f. , _pursuit_: nom. þā wæs ǣht boden Swēona lēodum,
segn Higelāce, _then was pursuit offered to the people of the Swēonas,
(their) banner to Hygelāc_ (i. e. the banner of the Swedes, taken during
their flight, fell into the hands of Hygelāc), 2958.
ǣled (Old Sax. eld, O. N. edl-r), st. m. , _fire_, 3016.
ǣled-lēoma, w. m. , _(fire-light), torch_: acc. sg. lēoman, 3126. See lēoma.
ǣn (oblique form of ān), num. , _one_: acc. sg. m. þone ǣnne þone. . . , _the
one whom_. . . , 1054; oftor micle þonne on ǣnne sīð, _much oftener than one
time_, 1580; forð onsendon ǣnne, _sent him forth alone_, 46.
ǣne, adv. , _once_: oft nalles ǣne, 3020.
ǣnig, pron.
God_, 3076. --Compounds: blǣd-, bold-, folc-, mægen-āgend.
āgend-frēa, w. m. , _owner, lord_: gen. sg. āgend-frēan, 1884.
āhsian, ge-āhsian, w. v. : 1) _to examine, to find out by inquiring_: pret.
part. ge-āhsod, 433. --2) _to experience, to endure_: pret. āhsode, 1207;
pl. āhsodon, 423.
āht, st. n. (contracted from ā-wiht, which see), _something, anything_: āht
cwices, 2315.
ān, num. The meaning of this word betrays its apparent demonstrative
character: 1) _this, that_, 2411, of the hall in the earth mentioned
before; similarly, 100 (of Grendel; already mentioned), cf. also 2775. --2)
_one_, a particular one among many, a single one, in numerical sense: ymb
āne niht (_the next night_), 135; þurh ānes cræft, 700; þāra ānum, 1038; ān
æfter ānum, _one for the other_ (Hrēðel for Herebeald), 2462: similarly, ān
æfter eallum, 2269; ānes hwæt, _some single thing, a part_, 3011; se ān
lēoda duguðe, _the one of the heroes of the people_, 2238; ānes willan,
_for the sake of a single one_, 3078, etc. --Hence, again, 3) _alone,
distinguished_, 1459, 1886. --4) _a_, in the sense of an indefinite article:
ān . . . fēond, 100; gen. sg. ānre bēne (or to No. 2[? ]), 428; ān . . . draca,
2211--5) gen. pl. ānra, in connection with a pronoun, _single_; ānra
gehwylces, _every single one_, 733; ānra gehwylcum, 785. Similarly, the
dat. pl. in this sense: nemne fēaum ānum, _except a few single ones_,
1082. --6) solus, _alone_: in the strong form, 1378, 2965; in the weak form,
145, 425, 431, 889, etc. ; with the gen. , āna Gēata duguðe, _alone of the
warriors of the Gēatas_, 2658. --7) solitarius, _alone, lonely_, see
ǣn. --Comp. nān.
ān-feald, adj. , _simple, plain, without reserve_: acc. sg. ānfealdne
geþōht, _simple opinion_, 256.
ān-genga, -gengea, w. m. , _he who goes alone_, of Grendel, 165, 449.
ān-haga, w. m. , _he who stands alone_, solitarius, 2369.
ān-hȳdig, adj. (like the O. N. ein-rād-r, _of one resolve_, i. e. of firm
resolve), _of one opinion_, i. e. firm, brave, decided, 2668.
ānga, adj. (only in the weak form), _single, only_: acc. sg. āngan dōhtor,
375, 2998; āngan eaferan, 1548; dat. sg. āngan brēðer, 1263.
ān-pæð, st. m. , _lonely way, path_: acc. pl. ānpaðas, 1411.
ān-rǣd, adj. (cf. under ān-hȳdig), _of firm resolution, resolved_, 1530,
1576.
ān-tīd, st. f. , _one time_, i. e. the same time, ymb ān-tīd ōðres dōgores,
_about the same time the second day_ (they sailed twenty-four hours),
219. --ān stands as in ān-mod, O. H. G. ein-muoti, _harmonious, of the same
disposition_.
ānunga, adv. , _throughout, entirely, wholly_, 635.
ār, st. m. , _ambassador, messenger_, 336, 2784.
ār, st. f. , 1) _honor, dignity_: ārum healdan, _to hold in honor_, 296;
similarly, 1100, 1183. --2) _favor, grace, support_: acc. sg. āre, 1273,
2607; dat. sg. āre, 2379; gen. pl. hwæt . . . ārna, 1188. --Comp. worold-ār;
also written ǣr.
ār-fæst, adj. , _honorable, upright_, 1169; of Hunferð (with reference to
588). See fæst.
ārian, w. v. , (_to be gracious_), _to spare_: III. sg. prs. w. dat. nǣnegum
ārað; of Grendel, 599.
ār-stæf, st. m. ,(elementum honoris), _grace, favor_: dat. pl. mid ārstafum,
317. --_Help, support_: dat. pl. for ār-stafum, _to the assistance_, 382,
458. See stæf.
āter-tēar, m. , _poisonous drop_: dat. pl. īren āter-tēarum fāh (steel which
is dipped in poison or in poisonous sap of plants), 1460.
Æ
æðele, adj. , _noble_: nom. sg. , of Bēowulf, 198, 1313; of Bēowulf's father,
263, where it can be understood as well in a moral as in a genealogical
sense; the latter prevails decidedly in the gen. sg. æðelan cynnes, 2235.
æðeling, st. m. , _nobleman, man of noble descent_, especially the
appellation of a man of royal birth; so of the kings of the Danes, 3; of
Scyld, 33; of Hrōðgār, 130; of Sigemund, 889; of Bēowulf, 1226, 1245, 1597,
1816, 2189, 2343, 2375, 2425, 2716, 3136; perhaps also of Dæghrefn,
2507;--then, in a broader sense, also denoting other noble-born men:
Æschere, 1295; Hrōðgār's courtiers, 118, 983; Heremōd's courtiers, 907;
Hengest's warriors, 1113; Bēowulf's retinue, 1805, 1921, 3172; noble-born
in general, 2889. --Comp. sib-æðeling.
æðelu, st. n. , only in the pl. , _noble descent, nobility_, in the sense of
noble lineage: acc. pl. æðelu, 392; dat. pl. cyning æðelum gōd, _the king,
of noble birth_, 1871; æðelum dīore, _worthy on account of noble lineage_,
1950; æðelum (hǣleþum, MS. ), 332. --Comp. fæder-æðelu.
æfnan, w. v. w. acc. , _to perform, to carry out, to accomplish_: inf.
ellen-weorc æfnan, _to do a heroic deed_, 1465; pret. unriht æfnde,
_perpetrated wrong_, 1255.
ge-æfnan, 1) _to carry out, to do, to accomplish_: pret. pl. þæt geæfndon
swā, _so carried that out_, 538; pret. part. āð wæs geæfned, _the oath was
sworn_, 1108. --2) _get ready, prepare_: pret. part. geæfned, 3107. See
efnan.
æfter (comparative of af, Ags. of, which see; hence it expresses the idea
of _forth, away, from, back_), a) adv. , _thereupon, afterwards_, 12, 341,
1390, 2155. --ic him æfter sceal, _I shall go after them_, 2817; in word
æfter cwæð, 315, the sense seems to be, _spoke back, having turned_; b)
prep. w. dat. , 1) (temporal) _after_, 119, 128, 187, 825, 1939, etc. ; æfter
beorne, _after the_ (death of) _the hero_, 2261, so 2262; æfter
māððum-welan, _after_ (obtaining) _the treasure_, 2751. --2) (causal) as
proceeding from something, denoting result and purpose, hence, _in
consequence of, conformably to_: æfter rihte, _in accordance with right_,
1050, 2111; æfter faroðe, _with the current_, 580; so 1321, 1721, 1944,
2180, etc. , æfter heaðo-swāte, _in consequence of the blood of battle_,
1607; æfter wælnīðe, _in consequence of mortal enmity_, 85; _in accordance
with, on account of, after, about_: æfter æðelum (hǣleþum, MS. )frægn,
_asked about the descent_, 332; ne frīn þū æfter sǣlum, _ask not after my
welfare_, 1323; æfter sincgyfan grēoteð, _weeps for the giver of treasure_,
1343; him æfter dēorum men dyrne langað, _longs in secret for the dear
man_, 1880; ān æfter ānum, _one for the other_, 2462, etc. --3) (local),
_along_: æfter gumcynnum, _throughout the races of men, among men_, 945;
sōhte bed æfter būrum, _sought a bed among the rooms of the castle_ (the
castle was fortified, the hall was not), 140; æfter recede wlāt, _looked
along the hall_, 1573; stone æfter stāne, _smelt along the rocks_, 2289;
æfter lyfte, _along the air through the air_, 2833; similarly, 996, 1068,
1317, etc.
æf-þunca, w. m. , _anger, chagrin, vexatious affair_: nom. , 502.
ge-æhtan, w. v. , _to prize, to speak in praise of_: pret. part. geæhted,
1866.
ge-æhtla, w. m. , or ge-æhtle, w. f. , _a speaking of with praise, high
esteem_: gen. sg. hȳ . . .
wyrðe þinceað eorla geæhtlan, _seem worthy of the
high esteem of the noble-born_, 369.
æglǣcea. See āglǣcea.
æl-fylce (from æl-, Goth. ali-s, ἄλλος, and fylce, O. N. fylki, collective
form from folc), st. n. , _other folk, hostile army_: dat. pl. wið ælfylcum,
2372.
æl-mihtig (for eal-m. ), adj. , _almighty_: nom. sg. m. , of the weak form, se
æl-mihtiga, 92.
æl-wiht, st. m. , _being of another species, monster_: gen. pl. æl-wihta
eard, of the dwelling-place of Grendel's kindred, 1501.
æppel-fealu, adj. , _dappled sorrel_, or _apple-yellow_: nom. pl.
æppel-fealuwe mēaras, _apple-yellow steeds_, 2166.
ærn, st. n. , _house_, in the compounds heal-, hord-, medo-, þrȳð-,
win-ærn.
æsc, st. m. , _ash_ (does not occur in Bēowulf in this sense), _lance,
spear_, because the shaft consists of ash wood: dat. pl. (quā instr. ) æscum
and ecgum, _with spears and swords_, 1773.
æsc-holt, st. n. , _ash wood, ashen shaft_: nom. pl. æsc-holt ufan grǣg,
_the ashen shafts gray above_ (spears with iron points), 330.
æsc-wiga, w. m. , _spear-fighter, warrior armed with the spear_: nom. sg. ,
2043.
æt, prep. w. dat. , with the fundamental meaning of nearness to something,
hence 1) local, a) _with, near, at, on, in_ (rest): æt hȳðe, in _harbor_,
32; æt symle, _at the meal_, 81, æt āde, _on the funeral-pile_, 1111, 1115;
æt þē ānum, _with thee alone_, 1378; æt wīge, _in the fight_, 1338; æt
hilde, 1660, 2682; æt ǣte, _in eating_, 3027, etc. b) _to, towards, at, on_
(motion to): dēaðes wylm hrān æt heortan, _seized upon the heart_, 2271;
gehēton æt hærgtrafum, _vowed at_ (or _to_) _the temples of the gods_, 175.
c) with verbs of taking away, _away from_ (as starting from near an
object): geþeah þæt ful æt Wealhþēon, _took the cup from W_. , 630; fela ic
gebād grynna æt Grendle, _from Grendel_, 931; æt mīnum fæder genam, _took
me from my father to himself_, 2430. --2) temporal, _at, in, at the time
of_: æt frumsceafte, _in the beginning_, 45; æt ende, _at an end_, 224;
fand sīnne dryhten ealdres æt ende, _at the end of life, dying_, 2791;
similarly, 2823; æt feohgyftum, _in giving gifts_, 1090; æt sīðestan,
_finally_, 3014.
æt-grǣpe, adj. , _laying hold of_, prehendens, 1270.
æt-rihte, adv. , _almost_, 1658.
Ǣ
ǣdre, ēdre, st. f. , _aqueduct, canal_ (not in Bēow. ), _vein_ (not in
Bēow. ), _stream, violent pouring forth_: dat. pl. swāt ǣdrum sprong, _the
blood sprang in streams_, 2967; blōd ēdrum dranc, _drank the blood in
streams_(? ), 743.
ǣdre, adv. , _hastily, directly, immediately_, 77, 354, 3107.
ǣðm, st. m. , _breath, gasp, snort_: instr. sg. hreðer ǣðme wēoll, _the
breast_ (of the drake) _heaved with snorting_, 2594.
ǣfen, st. m. , _evening_, 1236.
ǣfen-gram, adj. , _hostile at evening, night-enemy_: nom. sg. m. ǣfen-grom,
of Grendel, 2075.
ǣfen-lēoht, st. n. , _evening-light_: nom. sg. , 413.
ǣfen-ræst, st. f. , _evening-rest_: acc. sg. -ræste, 647, 1253.
ǣfen-sprǣc, st. f. , _evening-talk_: acc. sg. gemunde . . . ǣfen-sprǣce,
_thought about what he had spoken in the evening_, 760.
ǣfre, adv. , _ever, at any time_, 70, 280, 504, 693, etc. : in negative
sentences, ǣfre ne, _never_, 2601. --Comp. nǣfre.
ǣg-hwā (O. H. G. ēo-ga-hwër), pron. , _every, each_: dat. sg. ǣghwǣm, 1385.
The gen. sg. in adverbial sense, _in all, throughout, thoroughly_: ǣghwæs
untǣle, _thoroughly blameless_, 1866; ǣghwæs unrīm, _entirely innumerable
quantity_, i. e. an enormous multitude, 2625, 3136.
ǣg-hwæðer (O. H. G. ēo-ga-hwëdar): 1) _each_ (of two): nom. sg. hæfde
ǣghwæðer ende gefēred, _each of the two_ (Bēowulf and the drake) _had
reached the end_, 2845; dat. sg. ǣghwæðrum wæs brōga fram ōðrum, _to each
of the two_ (Bēowulf and the drake) _was fear of the other_, 2565; gen. sg.
ǣghwæðres . . . worda and worca, 287. --2) _each_ (of several): dat. sg. heora
ǣghwæðrum, 1637.
ǣg-hwǣr, adv. , _everywhere_, 1060.
ǣg-hwilc (O. H. G. ēo-gi-hwëlih), pron. , unusquisque, _every_ (one): 1) used
as an adj. : acc. sg. m. dǣl ǣghwylcne, 622. --2) as substantive, a) with the
partitive genitive: nom. sg. ǣg-hwylc, 9, 2888; dat. sg. ǣghwylcum, 1051.
b) without gen. : nom. sg. ǣghwylc, 985, 988; (wæs) ǣghwylc ōðrum trȳwe,
_each one_ (of two) _true to the other_, 1166.
ǣg-weard, st. f. , _watch on the sea shore_: acc. sg. ǣg-wearde, 241.
ǣht (abstract form from āgan, denoting the state of possessing), st. f. : 1)
_possession, power_: acc. sg. on flōdes ǣht, 42; on wæteres ǣht, _into the
power of the water_, 516; on ǣht gehwearf Denigea frēan, _passed over into
the possession of a Danish master_, 1680. --2) _property, possessions,
goods_: acc. pl. ǣhte, 2249. --Comp. māðm-, gold-ǣht.
ǣht (O. H. G. āhta), st. f. , _pursuit_: nom. þā wæs ǣht boden Swēona lēodum,
segn Higelāce, _then was pursuit offered to the people of the Swēonas,
(their) banner to Hygelāc_ (i. e. the banner of the Swedes, taken during
their flight, fell into the hands of Hygelāc), 2958.
ǣled (Old Sax. eld, O. N. edl-r), st. m. , _fire_, 3016.
ǣled-lēoma, w. m. , _(fire-light), torch_: acc. sg. lēoman, 3126. See lēoma.
ǣn (oblique form of ān), num. , _one_: acc. sg. m. þone ǣnne þone. . . , _the
one whom_. . . , 1054; oftor micle þonne on ǣnne sīð, _much oftener than one
time_, 1580; forð onsendon ǣnne, _sent him forth alone_, 46.
ǣne, adv. , _once_: oft nalles ǣne, 3020.
ǣnig, pron.
