Old English Dictionary Entry

á-cweþan

Related words: on-cweþan:--Wé lǽrað ðæt ǽnig mæssepreóst ána ne mæssige, ðæt hé næbbe þone þe him ácweðe, Ll. Th. ii. 250, 32.[Hornes aqueðen, Lay. 27444.

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1 á-cweþan

Add: (1) to say, utter, declare:--Hé ácwæð hine fram his hyldo he proclaimed him out of his favour, Gen. 304. Hí hogodon hú hí fácen and unriht ácwǽdon cogitaverunt et locuti sunt nequitiam, Ps. Th. 72, 6. Hé ne mihte word ácweþan neque ulla verba edere valebat, Gr. D. 183, 27. Ácueden is dicitur, Mt. L. 10, 2: dictum est, 5, 21. Ácueden wæs, 21, 4. Ácueðen bið dicitur, Mk. p. 1, 19. Ácuoeden wéron dicta erant, Lk. L. 2, 18. Ácwoedoni dicto, Mt. L. 26, 30. (2) to respond. Goth. uskwiþan þata waurd diffamare sermonem.] a-cweþan,a-cweðan

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ᚪ-ᚳᚹᛖᚦᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Goth.: Gothic
L.: Latin

Works & Authors

Gen.: Genesis (OE poem)
Gr.: Ælfric's Grammar
Lk.: Gospel of St. Luke (OE translation)
Mk.: Gospel of St. Mark (OE translation)
Mt.: Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Ps.: Psalms (OE)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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