Fore-genga

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

fore-genga

Add: (1) one who goes before:--Forgencga antecessor, An. Ox. 619. (1 a) implying inferiority, an attendant:--On þám fǽtelse þe hyre foregenga, bláchleór ides, heora bégea nest þyder on lǽdde, Jud. 127. (2) a predecessor:--Se cyng Willelm wæs strengere þonne his foregenga wǽre, Chr. 1086; P. 219, 22. Mid ðǽre láre ðe ic leornode æt ðám hálgum fæderum ðe wǽron úre foregengan, Hex. 34, 7. Hí gesáwon heora foregengan swá dón, Hml. Th. ii. 534, 1. (3) a leader, ruler:--Gemunað eówerra foregengena ðára ðe eów bodedon Godes word mementote praepositorum vestrorum, qui vobis locuti sunt verbum Dei, Past. 205, 14. [Goth. faura-gaggja a steward.] fore-genga