Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-geondan

Part of speech: be-iundan ;

Definitions

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1 be-geondan

prep. acc. [be by, geond, geondan over] BEYOND; per, trans :-- Him fyligdon mycele menigu fram Iudea and fram begeondan Iordanen secutæ sunt eum turbæ multæ de Judæa et de trans Jordanem, Mt. Bos. 4, 25. Alífe me to farenne and to geseónne ðæt séloste land begeondan Iordane transibo et videbo terram hanc optimam trans Jordanem, Deut. 3, 25. Begeondan sǽ in transmarinis partibus, Bd. 5, 19 ; S. 639, 10. Gewendon begeondan sǽ went beyond sea, Chr. 1048; Erl. 180, 16. Beiundan Iordane trans Jordanem, Deut. 1, 5. be-geondan

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Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᚷᛇᚾᛞᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Bd.: Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Chr.: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Erl.: Earle, J. (editor)
Mt.: Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
S.: Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)

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