Old English Dictionary Entry

Býgan

Part of speech: bígan, bígean, bégan; he býgeþ; Related words: trans. To bow, bend , turn, turn back, bow down, humble, abase

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1 býgan

p. de; pp. ed; flectere, inflectere, incurvare, retorquere, deflectere, humiliare :-- Býgdest ðú ðé fór hæleðum thou bowedst thyself before men, Exon. 100a; Th. 376, 11; Seel. 153. Ðeáh ðú hwilcne boh býge wið eorþan though thou bend any bough towards the earth, Bt. Met. Fox 13, 106; Met. 13, 53. Býgaþ hine, ðæt he on hinder gǽþ they shall turn him back, so that he shall go backward, Salm. Kmbl. 252; Sal. 125. He herm-cweðend hýneþ and býgeþ humiliabit calumniatorem, Ps. Th. 71, 5. [Dan. böje, boie: Swed. böja: O. Nrs. beygja.] DER. for-býgan, -bígan, ge-, on-.

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Runic Inscription

ᛒᚣᚷᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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O. Nrs.: Old Norse

Works & Authors

Bt.: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Exon.: Exeter Book
Fox: Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Met.: Metres of Boethius (OE poem)
Ps.: Psalms (OE)
Sal.: Psalms of Solomon (OE)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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