Ge-windan

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

ge-windan

Add: I. intrans. (1) of movement, (a) by living things, to roll together, roll up:--Se iil . . . sóna suá hiene mon geféhð, suá gewint hé tó ánum cliéwene ericius . . . mox ut apprehensus fuerit, semetipsum in sphaeram colligit, Past. 241, 11. (b) by inanimate things:--Gewand him út eall his innewearde, Hml. Th. i. 290, 19. (2) of action, to go about a matter, act in reference to:--'Wást þú hú ic gewand ymbe Creosos þearfe, þá þá hine Cirus forbærnan wolde.' Þá hine man on ꝥ fýr wearp, þá álýsde ic hine mid heofonlicon réne, Bt. 7, 3; F. 22, 10. II. trans. To roll back, unroll:--Wyllene wearp of clíwene gewundene lanea stamina ex glomere revoluta, An. Ox. 459. [Goth. du-gawindan sik gawaurkjam implicare se negotiis: O. H. Ger. ge-wintan colligere, torquere, volvere.? ge-windan