Brogdettan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Brogdettan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: (brodd-, bród-, bréd-, brott- ?); Related words: l.

Definitions

1 brogdettan

p. te. I. to shake, quiver :-- Brogdetteð vibrat, Txts. 107, 2132. Swá ꝥ wæs æteówed, ꝥ hé bródette byfiende mid wundorlicre styrunge ut apparuerit cancussione mirifica tremendo palpitasse, Gr. D. 166, 14. Þá ongan hé ofdrǽdd bifian and broddettan (forhtiende and brédetende, ) and clypian . . . Hí þone munuc cwakiendne and broddettendne (bród-, ) gelǽddon coepit ipse tremens et palpitans clamare . . . trementem et palpitantem monachum reduxerunt, 156, 13-21. Brogdetende vel cleppetende campus (can the English words be epithets applied to campus ( = aequor, cf. Corp. Gl. H. A. 314, aequor, pelagus vel campus) referring to the quivering of the surface of the water?), Txts. 49, 411. Brogdetende, brocdaettendi, brogdaethendi palpitans, 83, 1472. Bródetende, Wrt. Voc. ii. 67, 54. II. to glitter, be splendid (cf. brogdian) :-- Mid dislicum glengcgum brottetende (for form) stolidis pompis indruticans, Hpt. Gl. 435, 37. brogdettan

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ᛒᚱᚩᚷᛞᛖᛏᛏᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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