þā wæs æfter wiste wōp up ā-hafen (_a
cry was then uplifted after the meal_, i.
cry was then uplifted after the meal_, i.
Beowulf
wēl bið þǣm þe mōt .
.
.
tō
fæder fæðmum freoðo wilnian (_well for him that may beseech protection in
the Father's arms_), 188.
wil-sīð, st. m. , _chosen journey_: acc. sg. wil-sīð, 216.
ge-win, st. n. : 1) _strife, struggle, enmity, conflict_: acc. sg. , 878; þā
hīe ge-win drugon (_endured strife_), 799; under ȳða ge-win (_under the
tumult of the waves_), 1470; gen. sg. þæs ge-winnes weorc (_misery for this
strife_), 1722. --2) _suffering, oppression_: nom. sg. , 133, 191; acc. sg.
eald ge-win, 1782. --Comp. : fyrn-, ȳð-ge-win.
wīn-ærn, st. n. , _hall of hospitality, hall, wine-hall_: gen. sg.
wīn-ærnes, 655.
wind, st. m. , _wind, storm_: nom. sg. , 547, 1375, 1908; dat. instr. sg.
winde, 217; wið winde, 1133.
windan, st. v. : 1) intrans. , _to wind, whirl_: pret. sg. wand tō wolcnum
wæl-fȳra mǣst, 1120. --2) w. acc. , _to twist, wind, curl_: pret. pl.
strēamas wundon sund wið sande, 212; pret. part. wunden gold (_twisted,
spirally-twined, gold_), 1194, 3135; instr. pl. wundnum (wundum, MS. )
golde, 1383.
æt-windan, _to wrest one's self from, escape_: pret. sg. sē þǣm fēonde
æt-wand, 143.
be-windan, _to wind with_ or _round, clasp, surround, envelop_ (involvere):
pret. sg. þē hit (the sword) mundum be-wand, 1462; pret. part. wīrum
be-wunden (_wound with wires_) 1032; feorh . . . flǣsce be-wunden
(_flesh-enclosed_), 2425; gār . . . mundum be-wunden (_a spear grasped with
the hands_), 3023; iū-manna gold galdre be-wunden (_spell-encircled gold_),
3053; (āstāh . . . ) lēg wōpe be-wunden (_uprose the flame mingled with a
lament_), 3147.
ge-windan, _to writhe, get loose, escape_: inf. wīdre ge-windan (_to flee
further_), 764; pret. sg. on flēam ge-wand, 1002.
on-windan, _to unwind, loosen_: pres. sg. (þonne fæder) on-windeð
wæl-rāpas, 1611.
win-dæg, st. m. , _day of struggle_ or _suffering_: dat. pl. on þyssum
win-dagum (_in these days of sorrow_, i. e. of earthly existence), 1063.
wind-bland (blond), st. n. , _wind-roar_: nom. sg. , 3147.
wind-gereste, f. , _resting-place of the winds_: acc. sg. , 2457.
windig, adj. , _windy_: acc. pl. windige (weallas, næssas), 572, 1359;
windige weallas (wind geard weallas, MS. ), 1225.
wine, st. m. , _friend, protector_, especially the _beloved ruler_: nom. sg.
wine Scyldinga, lēof land-fruma (Scyld), 30; wine Scyldinga (Hrōðgār), 148,
1184. As vocative: mīn wine, 2048; wine mīn, Bēowulf (Hunferð), 457, 530,
1705; acc. sg. holdne wine (Hrōðgār), 376; wine Deniga, Scyldinga, 350,
2027; dat. sg. wine Scyldinga, 170; gen. sg. wines (Bēowulf), 3097; acc.
pl. wine, 21; dat. pl. Denum eallum, winum Scyldinga, 1419; gen. pl.
winigea lēasum, 1665; winia bealdor, 2568. --Comp. : frēa-, frēo-, gold-,
gūð-, mǣg-wine.
wine-dryhten, st. m. , (dominus amicus), _friendly lord, lord and friend_:
acc. sg. wine-drihten, 863, 1605; wine-dryhten, 2723, 3177; dat. sg.
wine-drihtne, 360.
wine-geōmor, adj. , _friend-mourning_: nom. sg. , 2240.
wine-lēas, adj. , _friendless_: dat. sg. wine-lēasum, 2614.
wine-mǣg, st. m. , _dear kinsman_: nom. pl. wine-māgas, 65.
ge-winna, w. m. , _striver, struggler, foe_: comp. eald-, ealdor-gewinna.
winnan, st. v. , _to struggle, fight_: pret. sg. III. wan āna wið eallum,
144; Grendel wan . . . wið Hrōðgār, 151; holm . . . won wið winde (_the sea
fought with the wind_: cf. wan wind endi water, Heliand, 2244), 1133; II.
eart þū se Bēowulf, sē þe wið Brecan wunne, 506; pl. wið gode wunnon, 113;
þǣr þā graman wunnon (_where the foes fought_), 778.
wīn-reced, st. n. , _wine-hall, guest-hall, house for entertaining guests_:
acc. sg. , 715, 994.
wīn-sele, st. m. , the same, _wine-hall_: nom. sg. , 772; dat. sg. wīn-sele,
696 (cf. Heliand Glossary, 369 [364]).
winter, st. m. n. : 1) _winter_: nom. sg. , 1133, 1137; acc. sg. winter,
1129; gen. sg. wintres, 516. --2) _year_ (counted by winters): acc. pl.
fīftig wintru (neut. ), 2210; instr. pl. wintrum, 1725, 2115, 2278; gen. pl.
wintra, 147, 264, 1928, 2279, 2734, 3051.
wintre, adj. , _so many winters_ (old): in comp. syfan-wintre.
ge-wislīce, adv. , _certainly, undoubtedly_: superl. gewislīcost, 1351.
wist, st. f. , fundamental meaning = _existentia_, hence: 1) _good
condition, happiness, abundance_: dat. sg. wunað hē on wiste, 1736. --2)
_food, subsistence, booty_: dat. sg.
þā wæs æfter wiste wōp up ā-hafen (_a
cry was then uplifted after the meal_, i. e. Grendel's meal of thirty men),
128.
wist-fyllo, st. f. , _fulness_ or _fill of food, rich meal_: gen. sg.
wist-fylle, 735.
wit, st. n. , (wit), _understanding_: nom. sg. , 590. --Comp. : fyr-, in-wit.
ge-wit, st. n. : 1) _consciousness_. dat. sg. ge-wēold his ge-witte,
2704. --2) _heart, breast_: dat. sg. fȳr unswīðor wēoll (_the fire surged
less strongly from the dragon's breast_), 2883.
wit, pers. pron. dual of wē, _we two_, 535, 537, 539, 540, 544, 1187, etc.
See unc, uncer.
wita, weota, w. m. , _counsellor, royal adviser_; pl. , _the king's council
of nobles_: nom. pl. witan, 779: gen. pl. witena, 157, 266, 937 weotena,
1099. --Comp. : fyrn-, rūn-wita.
witan, pret. -pres. v. , _to wot, know_. 1) w. depend, clause: pres. sg. I. ,
III. wāt, 1332, 2657; ic on Higelāce wāt þæt hē . . . (_I know as to H. , that
he_ . . . ), 1831; so, god wāt on mec þæt . . . (_God knows of me, that_ . . . ),
2651; sg. II. þū wāst, 272; weak pret. sg. I. , III. wiste, 822; wisse,
2340, 2726; pl. wiston, 799, 1605; subj. pres. I. gif ic wiste, 2520. --2)
w. acc. and inf. : pres. sg. I. ic wāt, 1864. --3) w. object, predicative
part, or adj. : pret. sg. III. tō þæs hē win-reced . . . gearwost wisse,
fǣttum fāhne, 716; so, 1310; wiste þǣm āhlǣcan hilde ge-binged, 647. --4) w.
acc. , _to know_: inf. witan, 252, 288; pret. sg. wisse, 169; wiste his
fingra ge-weald on grames grāpum, 765; pl. II. wisson, 246; wiston, 181.
nāt = ne + wāt, _I know not_: 1) elliptically with hwylc, indef. pronoun =
_some or other_: sceaða ic nāt hwylc. --2) w. gen. and depend. clause: nāt
hē þāra gōda, þæt hē mē on-gēan slēa, 682.
ge-witan, _to know, perceive_: inf. þæs þe hīe gewis-līcost ge-witan
meahton, 1351.
be-witian. See be-weotian.
wītig, adj. , _wise, sagacious_: nom. sg. wītig god, 686, 1057; wītig
drihten (God), 1555; wittig drihten, 1842.
ge-wittig, adj. , _conscious_: nom. sg. 3095.
ge-wītnian, w. v. , _to chastise, punish_: wommum gewītnad (_punished with
plagues_), 3074.
wīc, st. n. , _dwelling, house_: acc. sg. wīc, 822, 2590;--often in pl.
because houses of nobles were complex: dat. wīcum, 1305, 1613, 3084; gen.
wīca, 125, 1126.
ge-wīcan, st. v. , _to soften, give way, yield_ (here chiefly of swords):
pret. sg. ge-wāc, 2578, 2630.
wīc-stede, st. m. , _dwelling-place_: nom. sg. 2463; acc. sg. wīc-stede,
2608.
wīd, adj. , _wide, extended_: 1) space: acc. sg. neut. ofer wīd wæter, 2474;
gen. sg. wīdan rīces, 1860; acc. pl. wīde sīðas, waroðas, 878, 1966. --2)
temporal: acc. sg. wīdan feorh (acc. of time), 2015; dat. sg. tō wīdan
feore, 934.
wīde, adv. , _widely, afar_, 18, 74, 79, 266, 1404, 1589, 1960, etc. ; wīde
cūð (_widely, universally, known_), 2136, 2924; so, underne wīde, 2914;
wīde geond eorðan (_over the whole earth, widely_), 3100;--modifier of
superl. : wreccena wīde mǣrost (_the most famous of wanderers, exiles_),
899. --Compar. wīdre, 764.
wīd-cūð, adj. , _widely known, very celebrated_: nom. sg. neut. , 1257; acc.
sg. m. wīd-cūðne man (Bēowulf), 1490; wīd-cūðne wēan, 1992; wīd-cūðes
(Hrōðgār), 1043.
wīde-ferhð, st. m. n. , (_long life_), _great length of time_: acc. sg. as
acc. of time: wīde-ferhð (_down to distant times, always_), 703, 938; ealne
wīde-ferhð, 1223.
wīd-floga, w. m. , _wide-flier_ (of the dragon): nom. sg. , 2831; acc. sg.
wīd-flogan, 2347.
wīd-scofen, pret. part. , _wide-spread_? _causing fear far and wide_? 937.
wīd-weg, st. m. , _wide way, long journey_: acc. pl. wīd-wegas, 841, 1705.
wīf, st. n. , _woman, lady, wife_: nom. sg. frēo-līc wīf (Queen Wealhþēow),
616; wīf un-hȳre (Grendel's mother), 2121; acc. sg. drihtlīce wīf (Finn's
wife), 1159; instr. sg. mid þȳ wīfe (Hrōðgār's daughter, Frēawaru), 2029;
dat. sg. þām wīfe (Wealhþēow), 640; gen. sg.
fæder fæðmum freoðo wilnian (_well for him that may beseech protection in
the Father's arms_), 188.
wil-sīð, st. m. , _chosen journey_: acc. sg. wil-sīð, 216.
ge-win, st. n. : 1) _strife, struggle, enmity, conflict_: acc. sg. , 878; þā
hīe ge-win drugon (_endured strife_), 799; under ȳða ge-win (_under the
tumult of the waves_), 1470; gen. sg. þæs ge-winnes weorc (_misery for this
strife_), 1722. --2) _suffering, oppression_: nom. sg. , 133, 191; acc. sg.
eald ge-win, 1782. --Comp. : fyrn-, ȳð-ge-win.
wīn-ærn, st. n. , _hall of hospitality, hall, wine-hall_: gen. sg.
wīn-ærnes, 655.
wind, st. m. , _wind, storm_: nom. sg. , 547, 1375, 1908; dat. instr. sg.
winde, 217; wið winde, 1133.
windan, st. v. : 1) intrans. , _to wind, whirl_: pret. sg. wand tō wolcnum
wæl-fȳra mǣst, 1120. --2) w. acc. , _to twist, wind, curl_: pret. pl.
strēamas wundon sund wið sande, 212; pret. part. wunden gold (_twisted,
spirally-twined, gold_), 1194, 3135; instr. pl. wundnum (wundum, MS. )
golde, 1383.
æt-windan, _to wrest one's self from, escape_: pret. sg. sē þǣm fēonde
æt-wand, 143.
be-windan, _to wind with_ or _round, clasp, surround, envelop_ (involvere):
pret. sg. þē hit (the sword) mundum be-wand, 1462; pret. part. wīrum
be-wunden (_wound with wires_) 1032; feorh . . . flǣsce be-wunden
(_flesh-enclosed_), 2425; gār . . . mundum be-wunden (_a spear grasped with
the hands_), 3023; iū-manna gold galdre be-wunden (_spell-encircled gold_),
3053; (āstāh . . . ) lēg wōpe be-wunden (_uprose the flame mingled with a
lament_), 3147.
ge-windan, _to writhe, get loose, escape_: inf. wīdre ge-windan (_to flee
further_), 764; pret. sg. on flēam ge-wand, 1002.
on-windan, _to unwind, loosen_: pres. sg. (þonne fæder) on-windeð
wæl-rāpas, 1611.
win-dæg, st. m. , _day of struggle_ or _suffering_: dat. pl. on þyssum
win-dagum (_in these days of sorrow_, i. e. of earthly existence), 1063.
wind-bland (blond), st. n. , _wind-roar_: nom. sg. , 3147.
wind-gereste, f. , _resting-place of the winds_: acc. sg. , 2457.
windig, adj. , _windy_: acc. pl. windige (weallas, næssas), 572, 1359;
windige weallas (wind geard weallas, MS. ), 1225.
wine, st. m. , _friend, protector_, especially the _beloved ruler_: nom. sg.
wine Scyldinga, lēof land-fruma (Scyld), 30; wine Scyldinga (Hrōðgār), 148,
1184. As vocative: mīn wine, 2048; wine mīn, Bēowulf (Hunferð), 457, 530,
1705; acc. sg. holdne wine (Hrōðgār), 376; wine Deniga, Scyldinga, 350,
2027; dat. sg. wine Scyldinga, 170; gen. sg. wines (Bēowulf), 3097; acc.
pl. wine, 21; dat. pl. Denum eallum, winum Scyldinga, 1419; gen. pl.
winigea lēasum, 1665; winia bealdor, 2568. --Comp. : frēa-, frēo-, gold-,
gūð-, mǣg-wine.
wine-dryhten, st. m. , (dominus amicus), _friendly lord, lord and friend_:
acc. sg. wine-drihten, 863, 1605; wine-dryhten, 2723, 3177; dat. sg.
wine-drihtne, 360.
wine-geōmor, adj. , _friend-mourning_: nom. sg. , 2240.
wine-lēas, adj. , _friendless_: dat. sg. wine-lēasum, 2614.
wine-mǣg, st. m. , _dear kinsman_: nom. pl. wine-māgas, 65.
ge-winna, w. m. , _striver, struggler, foe_: comp. eald-, ealdor-gewinna.
winnan, st. v. , _to struggle, fight_: pret. sg. III. wan āna wið eallum,
144; Grendel wan . . . wið Hrōðgār, 151; holm . . . won wið winde (_the sea
fought with the wind_: cf. wan wind endi water, Heliand, 2244), 1133; II.
eart þū se Bēowulf, sē þe wið Brecan wunne, 506; pl. wið gode wunnon, 113;
þǣr þā graman wunnon (_where the foes fought_), 778.
wīn-reced, st. n. , _wine-hall, guest-hall, house for entertaining guests_:
acc. sg. , 715, 994.
wīn-sele, st. m. , the same, _wine-hall_: nom. sg. , 772; dat. sg. wīn-sele,
696 (cf. Heliand Glossary, 369 [364]).
winter, st. m. n. : 1) _winter_: nom. sg. , 1133, 1137; acc. sg. winter,
1129; gen. sg. wintres, 516. --2) _year_ (counted by winters): acc. pl.
fīftig wintru (neut. ), 2210; instr. pl. wintrum, 1725, 2115, 2278; gen. pl.
wintra, 147, 264, 1928, 2279, 2734, 3051.
wintre, adj. , _so many winters_ (old): in comp. syfan-wintre.
ge-wislīce, adv. , _certainly, undoubtedly_: superl. gewislīcost, 1351.
wist, st. f. , fundamental meaning = _existentia_, hence: 1) _good
condition, happiness, abundance_: dat. sg. wunað hē on wiste, 1736. --2)
_food, subsistence, booty_: dat. sg.
þā wæs æfter wiste wōp up ā-hafen (_a
cry was then uplifted after the meal_, i. e. Grendel's meal of thirty men),
128.
wist-fyllo, st. f. , _fulness_ or _fill of food, rich meal_: gen. sg.
wist-fylle, 735.
wit, st. n. , (wit), _understanding_: nom. sg. , 590. --Comp. : fyr-, in-wit.
ge-wit, st. n. : 1) _consciousness_. dat. sg. ge-wēold his ge-witte,
2704. --2) _heart, breast_: dat. sg. fȳr unswīðor wēoll (_the fire surged
less strongly from the dragon's breast_), 2883.
wit, pers. pron. dual of wē, _we two_, 535, 537, 539, 540, 544, 1187, etc.
See unc, uncer.
wita, weota, w. m. , _counsellor, royal adviser_; pl. , _the king's council
of nobles_: nom. pl. witan, 779: gen. pl. witena, 157, 266, 937 weotena,
1099. --Comp. : fyrn-, rūn-wita.
witan, pret. -pres. v. , _to wot, know_. 1) w. depend, clause: pres. sg. I. ,
III. wāt, 1332, 2657; ic on Higelāce wāt þæt hē . . . (_I know as to H. , that
he_ . . . ), 1831; so, god wāt on mec þæt . . . (_God knows of me, that_ . . . ),
2651; sg. II. þū wāst, 272; weak pret. sg. I. , III. wiste, 822; wisse,
2340, 2726; pl. wiston, 799, 1605; subj. pres. I. gif ic wiste, 2520. --2)
w. acc. and inf. : pres. sg. I. ic wāt, 1864. --3) w. object, predicative
part, or adj. : pret. sg. III. tō þæs hē win-reced . . . gearwost wisse,
fǣttum fāhne, 716; so, 1310; wiste þǣm āhlǣcan hilde ge-binged, 647. --4) w.
acc. , _to know_: inf. witan, 252, 288; pret. sg. wisse, 169; wiste his
fingra ge-weald on grames grāpum, 765; pl. II. wisson, 246; wiston, 181.
nāt = ne + wāt, _I know not_: 1) elliptically with hwylc, indef. pronoun =
_some or other_: sceaða ic nāt hwylc. --2) w. gen. and depend. clause: nāt
hē þāra gōda, þæt hē mē on-gēan slēa, 682.
ge-witan, _to know, perceive_: inf. þæs þe hīe gewis-līcost ge-witan
meahton, 1351.
be-witian. See be-weotian.
wītig, adj. , _wise, sagacious_: nom. sg. wītig god, 686, 1057; wītig
drihten (God), 1555; wittig drihten, 1842.
ge-wittig, adj. , _conscious_: nom. sg. 3095.
ge-wītnian, w. v. , _to chastise, punish_: wommum gewītnad (_punished with
plagues_), 3074.
wīc, st. n. , _dwelling, house_: acc. sg. wīc, 822, 2590;--often in pl.
because houses of nobles were complex: dat. wīcum, 1305, 1613, 3084; gen.
wīca, 125, 1126.
ge-wīcan, st. v. , _to soften, give way, yield_ (here chiefly of swords):
pret. sg. ge-wāc, 2578, 2630.
wīc-stede, st. m. , _dwelling-place_: nom. sg. 2463; acc. sg. wīc-stede,
2608.
wīd, adj. , _wide, extended_: 1) space: acc. sg. neut. ofer wīd wæter, 2474;
gen. sg. wīdan rīces, 1860; acc. pl. wīde sīðas, waroðas, 878, 1966. --2)
temporal: acc. sg. wīdan feorh (acc. of time), 2015; dat. sg. tō wīdan
feore, 934.
wīde, adv. , _widely, afar_, 18, 74, 79, 266, 1404, 1589, 1960, etc. ; wīde
cūð (_widely, universally, known_), 2136, 2924; so, underne wīde, 2914;
wīde geond eorðan (_over the whole earth, widely_), 3100;--modifier of
superl. : wreccena wīde mǣrost (_the most famous of wanderers, exiles_),
899. --Compar. wīdre, 764.
wīd-cūð, adj. , _widely known, very celebrated_: nom. sg. neut. , 1257; acc.
sg. m. wīd-cūðne man (Bēowulf), 1490; wīd-cūðne wēan, 1992; wīd-cūðes
(Hrōðgār), 1043.
wīde-ferhð, st. m. n. , (_long life_), _great length of time_: acc. sg. as
acc. of time: wīde-ferhð (_down to distant times, always_), 703, 938; ealne
wīde-ferhð, 1223.
wīd-floga, w. m. , _wide-flier_ (of the dragon): nom. sg. , 2831; acc. sg.
wīd-flogan, 2347.
wīd-scofen, pret. part. , _wide-spread_? _causing fear far and wide_? 937.
wīd-weg, st. m. , _wide way, long journey_: acc. pl. wīd-wegas, 841, 1705.
wīf, st. n. , _woman, lady, wife_: nom. sg. frēo-līc wīf (Queen Wealhþēow),
616; wīf un-hȳre (Grendel's mother), 2121; acc. sg. drihtlīce wīf (Finn's
wife), 1159; instr. sg. mid þȳ wīfe (Hrōðgār's daughter, Frēawaru), 2029;
dat. sg. þām wīfe (Wealhþēow), 640; gen. sg.
