Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-andwyrdan

Part of speech: -andwerdan;

Definitions

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1 ge-andwyrdan

p. -andwyrde; pp. -andwyrded, -andwyrd To answer; respondēre :-- Ne mihton hig agén ðis him geandwyrdan non pŏtĕrant ad hæc respondēre illi, Lk. Bos. 14, 6 : Bt. 41, 2; Fox. 244, 23. Geandwyrde [geandwerde MS. G.] he ðam óðrum swá hundréde riht þence let him answer to the other as shall seem right to the hundred, L. C. S. 27; Th. i. 392, 6. Him wæs geandwyrd ðus he was answered thus, Gen. 19, 21. ge-andwyrdan

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Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚪᚾᛞᚹᚣᚱᛞᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Common Abbreviations

L.: Latin

Works & Authors

Bt.: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
C.: Corpus Christi College MS
Fox: Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Gen.: Genesis (OE poem)
Lk.: Gospel of St. Luke (OE translation)
S.: Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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