Hwȳ

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

hwȳ

Add: I. in direct questions :-- Hwȳ (hwī, ) forcwid hē . . .dæt hē ne fēde his heorde ?, Past. 42, 6. Hwȳ (hwié, v. l.) wolde hē hié lǣran ?, 250, 24. Hwig eart þū swā gedrēfedes mōdes 1, Ap. Th. 2, 9. Ia. strengthened with ǣfre, ā :-- Hwȳ gē þonne ǣfre ofer-mōdigen?, Met. 17, 15. Hwī eów? ā lyste?, 10, 18. II. used interjectionally to introduce a question, cf. hū ; I. 2, hwā, II :-- Hȳ cwedad : 'Hwī! ne synt wē mūdfreó ? hū ne mōton wē sprecan þæt wē willad ? hwæt ! ondrǣde wē hwylc hlāford mæg ūs forbeóden firne willan ?, Ps. Th. ll, 4. III. in dependent clauses, (l) after verbs of asking, telling, thinking, &c. cf. hwā, III. :-- Wundrian hwī ꝥ weorþe, Bt. 39, 3; F. 214; 35. Uncūd hwī sió wyrd swā wō wendan sceolde, Met. 4, 40. Gehycgan hwȳ . . . , 15, 9. (2) where the matter referred to in the indirect question is the cause of the action stated in the mam clause, so that almost the same meaning as that intended would be got if the dependent clause were introduced by because and expressed affirmatively :-- Scipia mǣnde his earfoda tō Rōmana witum . . . hwȳ hié hiene swā unweordne on his ylde dyden, Ors. 5. 4 ; S. 224, 26. Hē gehēt him Godes yrre, hwȳ hē nolde gelȳfan ꝥ hē hālig wǣre, Hml. S. 31, 804: Hml. Th. i. 48, 16 (in Dict.). hwy

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