Earmian

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

earmian

Substitute: To cause pity in a person (dat.). [For constructions cf. of-hreówan.] (1) used impersonally with gen. of cause:--Hwám ne maeg earmian swylcere tíde to whom will there not be pity for such a time?, Chr. 1086; P. 218, 4. (2) with cause of pity as subject:--Him earmode þǽr[e] ungesǽligan angin the unhappy woman's enterprise was. a cause of pity to him, Hml. A. 196, 29. [Cf. Goth. arman to pity: O. H. Ger. parmén miserari.] and cf. irman. earmian

Verwandte Wörter: of-earmian; earmung;